Jim Talent Quotes
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Working with Rosshan Andrews has been wonderful.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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Boxing gave me a path in life. Because of boxing, I learned what I'm capable of achieving if I put my mind to it and how hard work can and will pay off in the end. It gave me confidence and taught me to face fear straight on and dig down deep when times get tough.
Mandy Bujold -
As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon - it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.
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I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.
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No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.
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I admire people who have that integrity, who know how to peacefully move through a situation - and it's reflected in how they deal with things like loss.
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My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime.
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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
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When I'm passionate about something, I just get excited.
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Hard work and making the most of life - that's what makes Georgians great.
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The best therapy is actually the more aggressive kind when they break you open; they unleash you.
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Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst.
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All heaven's glory is within and so is hell's fierce burning. You must yourself decide in which direction you are turning
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer.
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I worked at Starbucks when I was 16... It was all right.
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While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered between his teeth: 'Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Perhaps it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday.' No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now Friday.
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There is the who they thought they were and the who they wrote down, the something lost and the something gained, the discrepancy, now easily measured, between the voice they hear in their heads and the voice they find on their paper. “Our notebooks give us away,” Joan Didion observes. And they do. They also provide, to memoir makers, a shelf and a foundation.
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I would love to be able to serve in office in some capacity with Romney as president.
