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 think if we were going to worry about teen pregnancy being glamorized, we should worry about shows like 'Teen Mom'. If people are going to want to have children at a young age because they see it on TV, I think that depends on the type of person you're dealing with.
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There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.
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You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't.
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I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.
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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.
