Joseph David-Jones Quotes
The main fear comes from playing a character that so many people know from the comic books, and there's a long history of people unhappy with movies and TV shows who make alterations to comic book characters.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
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They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.
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It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.
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I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?
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I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
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My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.
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With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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I don't care about my character here on earth. I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.
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I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.
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Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen a lot of really good actors go into acting schools and then come out a little bit corrupted.
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The main fear comes from playing a character that so many people know from the comic books, and there's a long history of people unhappy with movies and TV shows who make alterations to comic book characters.
