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.

Jake Shears Scissor Sisters

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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
  • Long
  • Important

• 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

• 'Cinderella' touches on loss, and there was definitely a strong sense of grief in my life.

  

  Lily James
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Grief

• We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth we've already been seeing in Colorado continue.

  

  John Hickenlooper
  • Growth

• We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. From our leaders and the media they use to reach the public, we accept the evidence and the demarcation of issues bearing upon public questions; from some ethical teacher, be it a minister, a favorite essayist, or merely prevailing opinion, we accept a standardized code of social conduct to which we conform most of the time.

  

  Edward Bernays
  • Government
  • Evidence
  • Leaders

• I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Mind

• It's definitely part of my job description not to be too fat.

  

  Elizabeth Hurley
  • Job

• 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