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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I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.
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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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I lived in Paris when I was 20 and 21, and actually knew people that worked for the government there, that talked about terrorism in the country 20 years ago.
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My motivation is to be creative and have fun. You want to do something that keeps you on your toes the rest of your life and keeps you busy.
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I try to encourage people to really love what they do, like when it's about being a part of this business, love what you do because it's not going to always be defined by who you are. It's going to be a lot of times your good name walks in the door before you do.
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I often think to myself, at the end of an interesting life it's maybe not such a bad thing to spend your last days with your friends sitting by the blue, blue ocean reliving the story of your life while sitting in the dangerous sun.
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Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
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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.
