Tommy Lee Jones Quotes
Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.
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I'm like a junkie for writing.
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This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is required of us so that the face of the earth may be renewed.
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There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.
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I enjoy living in L.A. This is where the work is - or at least generated from - because you fly off and do movies. It's sort of a great way to see the world.
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The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.
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I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you're surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren't distracted by people's conversations.
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East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
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In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put on the page were the stories of people who looked like me.
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Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.
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On my lips, I just do a little bit of liner, just a color silhouette.
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There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.
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Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.
