Jim Sturgess Quotes
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.
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I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.
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The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'
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What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
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Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.
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Orlando is such a kind person. He's so generous and one of us, 'us' meaning a theater person. What a lot of people don't know about him is that, before 'Lord of the Rings,' he went to theater school like a lot of us. He is just really sweet and hard working.
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We have freedom of speech, and anybody's idea can't be a fact.
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I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
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Playing my music to fans and people enjoying it is what matters; that makes me happy as an artiste. If you start worrying about awards, you will lose your creativity.
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Most of my friends are from the music scene.
