Steve James Quotes
I don't like getting beat up much in films, but Jackie Chan could beat me up anytime. My first influence was Bruce Lee, and then I saw Jackie afterwards, and it was entirely different. When people ask me who I think is the best action star, I don't say Stallone, I don't say Schwarzenegger, I say Jackie. He's my influence, I learn from him, that's why I'm here.
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.
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There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else.
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I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.
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My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.
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To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.
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If you're doing your job right, some substantial group of people [is] going to be mad at you.
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Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.
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I signed on with Disney to star and choreograph an original film.
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All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of all men, present, past and future, are one communion.
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Everyone deserves to feel good about themselves, and if you don’t then start because everyone is beautiful.
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I don't like getting beat up much in films, but Jackie Chan could beat me up anytime. My first influence was Bruce Lee, and then I saw Jackie afterwards, and it was entirely different. When people ask me who I think is the best action star, I don't say Stallone, I don't say Schwarzenegger, I say Jackie. He's my influence, I learn from him, that's why I'm here.
