James Brown Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
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We Europeans have a long tradition of cultural and economic relationship with Iran.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.
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Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.
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As I grow older and meet more and more people, I realise how lucky I am to have had a stable family environment. Both my parents had loving families but unstable upbringings, so they wanted us to have a more stable situation.
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I just thank God for all of the blessings.
