JR
JR
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth22 February 1983
CountryFrance
I think it's important that a director be able to know his characters inside and out.
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I shoot a lot of film - that's one of the things I try to do, and it's one of the things I learned how to do with Robert De Niro on 'Men of Honor.'
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I realized that food was actually a metaphor for bringing us all together. It's about us communicating and being like family.
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I call it soul food, and I call it compassion food because it kind of bonds loved ones together. It kept families together for a long time.
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Food was a labor of love you felt by cooking it and eating it.
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The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music grows, but the foundation is always there. It's not going anywhere. The blues is always going to be relevant.
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I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father's frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.
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I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.
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Sometimes I, as a public official, turn to Scripture or hymns - especially hymns, because sometimes we Catholics don't have the Scriptures memorized like we should - to help me explain a public policy position or an idea or to be able to articulate it better when you're talking about justice or mercy or compassion.
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I know Barack Obama. And I believe that as president, he'll pursue the common good by seeking common ground rather than trying to divide us.
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Catholics are every bit as diverse as any other sort of voters out there, with conservative Democrats and moderates.
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So often, generalizations don't apply to Catholic voters. Catholics are concerned about the war, the economy, about issues like abortion, issues pertaining to the budget and funding Medicaid and Medicare and what happens to the environment.
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Barack Obama and I have an honest disagreement on the issue of abortion.
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I do think there's a difference between what a religious leader says and does and what a public official or legislator does. But there's no question that a lot of our legal underpinnings find a good bit of their foundations in the Scriptures.