C. L. R. James Quotes

In a great play or a great film, there's a rehearsal period and they find this character. On TV, everything moves fast.

When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment.

When you feel moved by the story, you want to tell that story.

In my everyday life, I'm a jeans and button-up shirt kind of guy.

I always feel like hard work leads the way, and from there, I leave it up to the powers that be.

I worked in television now for a few years. I think summer has become a really exciting time for television shows. And I think it's become a time for shows to distinguish themselves.

No one ever judges their own self.

I just grew up loving acting and loving entertainment.

I have a dog. I'm a dog lover.

Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.

My dad used to put me in front of the TV screen and made me watch old Jimmy Durante and Dean Martin movies. I just always loved entertainment.

Birds always seem like they're swooping down on you.

What's been exciting for me is to read the scripts.

Getting a second thing isn't always easy in this busy, competitive television market.

Acting is great. It's so much fun. It's a job where you literally get to do something that's a great experience, and then you try a new experience, and you take things from all of it.

As an actor, that's the most important thing. You want to be able to let go and not hold onto anything, so that you can give an honest portrayal and performance.

People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.

I'm into playing guitars, not into figuring out what else goes on with them.

We live in a litigious society, and that's the way it is. Better safe than sorry.

Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly.

I take the stage as a man in his fifties and walk off the stage like a man in his twenties.

The live concerts are still one of the two greatest joys of my life.

I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.

It's crazy how every guitarist is their own worst critic in many ways.

The Internet has killed the traditional record business, but it's given back in the way of instant access.

I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do.

The travel is a lot uglier than it once was with TSA and the deregulation of the airline services. These planes are getting smaller for my 6" 2' frame.

I feel like I've got an open mind as far as sounds, for me, as far as I'm concerned I just wanted to make music that had really good melodies.

Whichever kind of music I was making it was all about the melody anyway. The kind of music I'm making now is the way it is because I'm being 100% honest with myself.

The most important thing is that you're comfortable with who you're working with as a person. Forget the music, if you can sit in a room with someone and you don't have awkwardness.

When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived, sometimes it is and I think people pick up on that.

Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.

People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status quo.

People who think they know usually stopped thinking long ago.

Insight is 'mental vision,' one of the ways in which the mind escapes the limits of the obvious or the familiar.

The lost wallet or purse law: No matter how careful you are, assume that you will lose a few. ... Keep grief to a minimum. It's bad enough your stuff is gone; don't lose your mind too.

You are much more than the sum of what you produce.

You can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard.

Enlightenment is being able to go to your own home and feel comfortable.

There is no love that rewards with more consistency and provides lifelong passion as the love one has for the world.

We don't give 'em no respect..none!

Giving something your time isn't the same as giving it your attention.

I think it's every artist's dream to create something that will endure, something that people will listen to until there are no more people on earth to listen to things.

I wish we had a more open discourse. It's just a shame that with our 24-hour news media and the Internet, people have become so fragmented. They only want to support their own worldview.

God forbid Donald Trump gets elected president; think about how many people are going to get f**ked over or how much harder we're going to have to fight for equality.

The inquirer after holiness should associate with those whose intelligence will instruct him; whose example will guide him; whose conversation will inspire him; whose cautions will warn him.

I purchased excellent and beautiful horses, visited all such neighbors as I found in congenial spirits, and was as happy as happy could be.

I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors.

The mercantile business did not suit me