James Carl Inkanish, Jr. (Jimmy Carl Black) Quotes
I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
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The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.
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My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.
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How I see my career is very much as an entrepreneur in the field of philanthropy.
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I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach.
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It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.
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I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.
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I love doing kids' films.
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
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For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
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Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
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I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy.
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A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.
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I have a cat and a dog. They don't really get along, but I think they get along when no one is looking.
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For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.
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We are in a situation with the huge stimulus package that's going to be spent all across this nation and a big financial crisis and banking crisis. And what we need is good, trained journalists who can play the role of watchdog.
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I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.
