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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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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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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Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.
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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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I loved competing and winning and also wanted to continue my career for the fans, knowing they were there for me and enjoyed watching me fight.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.
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When I was a kid, I was more interested in beating up boys on the playground than practicing music.
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I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.
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Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.
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I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.
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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.
