Daniel Jones Quotes

If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be?

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• Body experience... is the centre of creation.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Experience
  • Body
  • Creation

• I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Want
  • Me
  • Running

• The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Actor
  • Where
  • Rehearsal

• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Friend

• Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Reality
  • Need
  • Writer

• The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Business
  • Me
  • Goal

• I write music every day.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Day
  • Everyday

• In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • World
  • Dream
  • Sweet

• Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Life
  • Time
  • May

• Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Running
  • Wife
  • Congress

• I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Want
  • Gentleman
  • Manners

• That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Live
  • Society
  • Free

• There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Parents
  • You
  • Said

• When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Why
  • Kids

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Deception

• I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.

  

  Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age
  • Music
  • Band
  • I Love

• In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Small
  • Listening
  • Theatre

• I believe if you can find something to give back to, your soul will feel fulfilled in a very powerful way.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • Way

• That’s the only way to look at things, I always say,” propounded the Duke. “Slantways, sideways, and upside down.”

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Way
  • Look At
  • Sideways

• My approach is a bit unconventional because it kind of turns things around. I made a promise to myself at a very early stage that I wasn't going to try and force something into a specific shape. It's a process where I allow the songs to go where they want to go and it doesn't really fit into any kind of genre.

  

  Einar Selvik
  • Promise
  • Songs
  • Shape

• If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be?

  

  Daniel Jones Savage Garden
  • Way
  • Change
  • Raised