CJ Adams Quotes
What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became 'Timothy Green.'
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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We must never bend too much.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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Oakland kids are always the best.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
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If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
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During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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I've always had an addictive nature.
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I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.
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Research has shown that children who play often both solitarily and socially become more creative and imaginative than those whose exposure to play and toys is limited.
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I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.
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What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became 'Timothy Green.'
