Joshua Jackson (Joshua Browning Carter Jackson) Quotes
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It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
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I love to be in front of big galleries.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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It made the most sense for us to select Sam Bowie. It was almost a no-brainer.
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Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.
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SOLOSHOT is such a brilliant idea and an athlete's dream. It has given me the ability to film myself training without anyone's help - it's perfect because I can go to the beach, set up my SOLOSHOT, and not have to rely on anyone to stand there and film me from the beach for hours.
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It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.
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'I'm excited by the band White Stripes. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.'
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I realized that for this moment, nothing in the past mattered. Nothing terrible in the future mattered. What mattered was her skin against me, her hand holding me, the perfume of her hair and skin and the warmth of her breath against my chest. This was satori. This was truth.
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To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.
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What would I advise an aspiring young entrepreneur? Certainly I'd say read the works of great entrepreneurs and investors like Ben Horowitz, Peter Thiel, and many others. But what's more important is to get real experience at a great startup.
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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
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Life is too short not to do a little practical joking.
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Acting always affects every part of your life because it's such a solitary, lonely, and thrilling circumstance that you're taking on someone else's character and that responsibility. It's exhausting.
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I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.
