Jimmy Gomez Quotes
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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I have a tendency to lean towards a more retro look.
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What's profound and exciting is the way young people are taking advantage of the fact that the Internet enables everyone to have a megaphone. It enables everyone to stand up and say, 'I deserve to be heard, and I demand that you listen.'
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In the past, it wasn't any big deal for people with talent to hang out together. Now we have the celebrity age, which has made a lot of things harder to do.
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My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
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I've seen suffering first-hand, and we have to make sure we relieve people's suffering.
