Jake Shears (Jason F. Sellards) Quotes
I do think it's possible to change people's minds - it's one of my goals with my music.Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
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I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
A. N. Wilson -
My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
Malik Bendjelloul -
All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.
Taylor Swift -
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
J. G. Ballard -
I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.
Garth Brooks -
I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.
Sam Raimi
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
D. B. Weiss -
You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.
Hal Holbrook -
Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.
Eden Hazard -
But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.
Beck -
Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.
S. J. Rozan
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
Dan Savage -
I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.
Harrison Ford -
So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
Edgar Bergen -
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
Karen Armstrong -
I could try to incorporate or reflect in my models what it is that an employee, manager, or entrepreneur does: to recognize that most are engaged in their work, form expectations and evolve beliefs, solve problems, and have ideas. Trying to put these people into economic models became my project.
Edmund Phelps
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I walked along impressionist paintings in the Paris' museums, 1907 like a roe-deer in an enchanted forest, for which it has always yearned.
Franz Marc -
Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
Enrichment happened to be my favorite time of day in the Children's Zoo, since it offered relief from the security-guard-esque standing around that makes up most of a zookeeper's day.
Ben Dolnick -
I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do.
Maria Bello -
I don't mind playing somebody who's not likable, or makes the audience feel slightly conflicted.
James McAvoy -
I do think it's possible to change people's minds - it's one of my goals with my music.
Jake Shears Scissor Sisters