William James Quotes
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.
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Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.
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The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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I wouldn't be here if it weren't for 'Show Boat.' The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely a direct reflection of what 'Show Boat' made possible.
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The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.
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Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.
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The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
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'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes.
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I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but I admire even more his contribution to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and body as one, and not two separate things.
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Another person who's smarter than I. What a relief to not have to be the smartest guy anymore.
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I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women.
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I think a few of my most visible roles are crazy or peppy girls, but I've played a lot of characters who are soldiers, or fighters, or meditative characters, and a lot of this stuff hasn't come out.
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If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
