Jimmy Stewart Quotes
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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
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My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me.
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Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle.
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The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
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My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
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I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
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I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.
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The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
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Hollywood, for me, is the studios. It's a way to produce. It's a different way to make movies, and I never took part in that.
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Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.
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Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me – it was actually my first instrument.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good.
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The facts at hand presumably speak for themselves, but a trifle more vulgarly, I suspect, than facts even usually do.
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I believe that the best measure of whether a nation is going to be successful is whether they are tapping the talents of their women.
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Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.
