Jim Sturgess Quotes
After 'The Way Back,' which was so epic and so rich, it was like, 'What will I do now?'
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I was tested against the best.
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In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.
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I did anything that would get me on the air.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
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Obviously I will promote 'Vaalu.' It is my film. I am the lead actress in it; I play a major part, and I will promote the film.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.
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'Rent' was my first professional job, ever.
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I'm a rock and roll singer.
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At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.
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The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
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I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.
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I never think I have to prove something.
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Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.
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If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
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If you think something is impossible, then it certainly is... for you.
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I've seen a lot of great players that couldn't get to the top because of horses, and I've seen a lot of normal players that got higher and higher because of horses.
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All the great shows owe a lot to 'Hill Street Blues.'
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Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.
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The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. … Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.
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As a country, we have confronted and controlled the most common sources of ozone precursors, and our options are few and far between to handle what remains, which is mostly naturally occurring ozone and ozone transported from other countries such as Mexico.
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I was six when the war started, ten when the Armistice ended the slaughter. The best of our horses had gone to pull guns, and the pony that I loved so much had been taken to pull a wagon of war. Thus early I learned of man’s inhumanity to man.
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After 'The Way Back,' which was so epic and so rich, it was like, 'What will I do now?'
