Jimmy Graham Quotes
When I was younger, I could carry 270 around and run go routes, and it was no big deal.
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If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.
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It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.
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I love my sleep.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.
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I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.
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I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.
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When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
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My job is to look out on that world that I write about and be as honest as I possibly can about that world. If that's optimistic and uplifting, OK. If it's not, OK.
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For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.
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Broadway has been my dream since I was 5 years old.
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Breathe through your movements.
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Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
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It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished.
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We do the impossible when we tell ourselves we can.
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Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
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To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day. Touched by the family, cuddled and comforted. A tremendous love and compassion exuded by every family member. I think it must be how it ought to be, in a perfect world.
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The body should be reconfigured by the clothes, never again the other way round.
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I just focus on what I can control, and that's how hard I play and my attitude.
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I have a recurring dream where I'm on the run for a horrible thing I did years and years ago. Like, in the dream... because the thing I did was so long ago that it's just a faint memory in my dream, so I'm sort of remembering it as I'm on the run from the police. And I'm totally guilty of it.
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Most men and women of the seventeenth century Britain still lived in a world of magic, in which God and the devil intervened daily, a world of witches, fairies, and charms. If they failed, the royal touch would cure scrofula.
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When I was younger, I could carry 270 around and run go routes, and it was no big deal.
