Jake Shears (Jason F. Sellards) Quotes

One of my favorite venues is the Bowery Ballroom in New York. I love the room; there's a tiny stage, but I really like the feel of it.

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• A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.

  

  Eddie Money
  • Important
  • You
  • Community

• No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Failure
  • Illusion
  • Himself

• Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Live
  • Man

• I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Good
  • Me
  • Dance

• I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Live
  • Day

• Most days, I still feel like I need to be wearing mascara, eyeliner, have my eyebrows done, have on bronzer - the whole thing! I may as well do it all.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Done
  • May
  • Feel

• L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Good
  • Old
  • Grow

• Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Time
  • Important
  • Long

• It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Romantic
  • Conversation

• I don't like having to be pushed into a box.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Like
  • Box
  • Pushed

• I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • College
  • Football
  • Sports

• I think something that's very relevant in real life and that they don't portray enough on TV is that when you think 'Christian,' you think 'goody two shoes' - they have to look a certain way and do certain things - and it's just not true.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Life
  • Real
  • True

• But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart... I am a big teddy bear.

  

  AJ McLean
  • People
  • Heart
  • Bad

• After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Bored

• Every girl should be married at least once in her life. It's a must. Because once you have been married, you are a Mrs., and even if the marriage doesn't work out, they can't take that away from you.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Life
  • Work
  • Girl

• I like to support local record stores.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Support
  • Like
  • Record

• The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • True
  • Woman
  • Image

• Jackie's dream was France, but mine was really art and Italy, as that was all I cared about through school. My history of art teacher, who saved my life at Farmington, was obsessed with Bernard Berenson, and I succumbed as well.

  

  Lee Radziwill
  • Life
  • School
  • Art

• I believe that I improve with every book I write - most writers will probably tell you the same thing. I'm still learning my craft and will be until the day I drop dead at my computer. In my opinion, art isn't something that can be perfected. There's always room for improvement.

  

  David B. Coe
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Book

• My goal is always to keep my ears as wide open as possible.

  

  Daniel Hope

• I've got friends who totally disagree on politics, religion, cultural things, but at the core, we're the same people.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • People
  • Friends

• A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Person
  • Made
  • Theory

• One of my favorite venues is the Bowery Ballroom in New York. I love the room; there's a tiny stage, but I really like the feel of it.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters