April Parker Jones Quotes
Being able to channel my creativity, emotions and experience through a character was and is freedom for me.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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My characters hope for better lives.
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I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.
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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
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Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
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I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
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I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My voice is the utterly normal voice, but sheer repetition has made them think it's OK. Mick Jagger once was asked, 'What makes a hit song? He said, 'Repetition.'
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Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.
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If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.
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The dieting wars have got to stop.
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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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In all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is several thousand times greater than the highest homicide rate in any American city.
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I never think of a project as just being comedy or just being drama - even with 'Masters of Sex.' I like being sort of messy, like life is.
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It's only the filmmaker. The script is really, really second. And there's a huge gap between filmmaker and script for me. I almost don't care about the story that they're telling; I really only care about who wants to tell it.
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Being able to channel my creativity, emotions and experience through a character was and is freedom for me.
