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J. K. Simmons Quotes

For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.

J. K. Simmons

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: January 9, 1955

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Learning Good Time Words Me Rest

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

Joan Didion

Research Writing You Down Go Matter

I don't sit around thinking about my titles and roles; I just do what feels right.

Meghan Markle

Thinking Right Sit Titles Just

I don't think enough players channel the energy of the crowd. If it's done properly, and you don't let anger overwhelm and distract you, it's like a shot of adrenaline in the arm, and it gets the crowd pumped up.

John McEnroe

Anger Energy Think Enough You Done

Doubt is the father of invention.

Ambrose Bierce

Father Imagination Doubt Invention

I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.

Amitabh Bachchan

Love Father Play Now Romance Her

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

Alphonsus Liguori

Love Confidence God Alone Habit You

For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them.

Joyce Brothers

Men Negative Think Wrong Something

Love Is Louder is a movement that is hopefully going to bring some awareness and make some noise when it comes to teens who are feeling suicidal or even just sad, outcasts, and being bullied, and really feel like they have nowhere to turn to.

Brittany Snow

Love Sad Love Is Feel Feeling Turn

Good governance requires working toward common ground. It isn't easy.

Pete Hoekstra

Good Easy Ground Governance Working

The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.

Paul Wellstone

Work Future Passion Work Hard Better

For me, the family is more important, of course! I don't want to change my family, or situation, for work. But I think it is possible for these things not to fight each other.

Paz Vega

Work Family Change Fight Me Think

You're kind of taught that the role of a business person is the decision making.

Scott Cook

Business Decision You Person Kind