Jake Shears (Jason F. Sellards) Quotes

I'm such a fitness freak that I eat so plain, it's gross. I have oatmeal in the morning and then I have chicken breasts and vegetables and spinach shakes.

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• 'Wild Hope' just felt like such a selfish venture to me. It was a way for me to get out of my head, get some clarity on certain situations, and finally be a part of something that I was completely behind creatively and proud of.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Hope
  • Proud
  • Selfish

• It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Done
  • Man
  • Reflection

• My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Guitar

• You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • You
  • First

• Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Alone
  • Confidence

• I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Long
  • Rock
  • Last

• I believe when I leave this earth, because I love the Lord, I am going straight to Heaven.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Believe
  • Earth
  • Lord

• I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Real
  • Wish
  • Effort

• In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Up
  • School
  • Reality

• I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • School
  • Done
  • High

• Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Country
  • Care

• Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had to learn new phrases. I've had to learn to be more secure about singing in Spanish. But I'm working on it.

  

  La India
  • Home
  • Singing
  • English

• To open yourself up and open your heart, it's a scary thing in life, let alone a movie.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Life
  • Up
  • Heart

• My mum told me once I was a Hindu.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Me
  • Once
  • Hindu

• I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Professional

• I started playing around with GoPros on my own to get some cool footage. But it's actually become a big training tool for my team and me.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Team
  • Cool
  • Training

• Once you acknowledge that human brains are basically made of atoms and acknowledge that atoms are governed by simple laws of physics, then there is no reasoning principle why computers couldn't do anything that people are doing, and we don't really see any evidence that this is not the case.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Why
  • Simple

• At least I had that, one guy understood me.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Understood

• When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

  

  Charles de Gaulle

• Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Chicago
  • Comfort
  • Sounds

• Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Up
  • True
  • Style

• You can fill this table up with people who are racist, homophobic, Satanist worshippers, sexist and we can be arguing but if you put on a song, I guarantee that people will stop and listen and that's what I love about music, it can bring people together.

  

  Charles King
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I'm such a fitness freak that I eat so plain, it's gross. I have oatmeal in the morning and then I have chicken breasts and vegetables and spinach shakes.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
  • Morning
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