James Durbin Quotes
The first think I did when I found out I was a finalist, was, I don't remember, because it felt like it was an out of body experience.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
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My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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Scenes change all the time. Scenes will change while you're shooting them, and you just have to roll with it 'cause that's what makes it funny. It's not being stuck in your character and how you're gonna do something, but to react to other people and to really have a real-life conversation.
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Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
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You can't hire someone to practice for you.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.
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I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.
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Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.
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I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.
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I'm a fan of originals and classics, but I'm also a fan of new ideas.
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The first think I did when I found out I was a finalist, was, I don't remember, because it felt like it was an out of body experience.
