James Brown Quotes
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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I'm not a control freak.
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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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Novels are longer than life.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
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It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.
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The Pentecostals had horns, drums, guitars, huge choirs, and screaming and dancing and all kinds of stuff. That was for me.
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As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
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I was raised Catholic, but then I discovered Buddhism, and I used to have a boyfriend who was a Scientologist, and they are all good religions that help people. As far as I'm concerned, you can have all three religions at once and it's okay!
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I want to say to you: Help yourself, so you can help someone else.
