William James Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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I like the language in Proust but not the context.
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I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.
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If you want to go east, don't go west.
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Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.
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I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.
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When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.
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It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.
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'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
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Over the years, he disappeared - like a lot of our leaders disappear. [James Baldwin] was not assassinated, but somehow he went through those assassinations as if it was himself. I think that broke him as well.
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As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.
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I am inspired when I see goodness in other people.
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Seeing is such a privilege. Who notices the way the screech of a gull looks, the look of a gale, the sight of some fragrance?
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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
