James Stevenson Quotes
You have to be able to get on with people. I know this sounds weird but you have to know how to be in a band. Some people, they can’t work with other people. It just doesn’t work. I think I’m quite easy to get on with. I’m very adaptable.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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I think that what I'd like to instil is that if you join the youth theatre, it's a gateway into greater career prospects.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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I see a New York that is once again the empire state.
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California is a bellwether state. California was the first state in the United States to overturn the laws against interracial marriage. It took 19 years for the rest of the country to come around to that point of view.
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But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
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If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.
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I had no interest in cinema until I was 24 years old. My friends had posters of their favourite stars in their houses, but I was far from a film buff - very detached from films.
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
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When you live in a community where people know you, it makes you want to be good and decent. It's a strong influence.
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The sequester is not something that I proposed. It's something that Congress has proposed. It will not happen.
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Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
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Let’s say this together: 'Great me no greats', and leave this grading to posterity.
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Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.
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I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class black music. We thought what we needed was a new name. But a white disc jockey named Alan Freed laid on it, and he thought up the name 'rock n' roll.'
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You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters.
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I was just obsessed with soul singers who had these big powerful voices. I used to listen to Aretha, Whitney, Mariah and try and imitate them, note for note and riff for riff.
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We would certainly welcome the recipient nation to put their inspectors on our shores, if they wanted to make that investment to help protect that shipment that is outgoing.
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You have to be able to get on with people. I know this sounds weird but you have to know how to be in a band. Some people, they can’t work with other people. It just doesn’t work. I think I’m quite easy to get on with. I’m very adaptable.
