James Arthur Quotes
I went from absolutely nothing to a lot of people judging me overnight, and it was really tough for me.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. And they were all from different litters. It wasn't like they were bred. They were all from different people. And they were all different ages. When I grew up at my dad's house, I think we had seven at one point.
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What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.
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Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against.
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Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.
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I have a special child and there are not a lot of services around for that special child, and so we picked out a school that would be a very good school for her.
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Sad as a wasted passion.
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I went from absolutely nothing to a lot of people judging me overnight, and it was really tough for me.
