James Agee Quotes

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

James Agee

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• I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

  

  Feist
  • True
  • Know
  • Situation

• I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Real
  • Father
  • Career

• We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Time
  • Great
  • Society

• I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Long
  • Women

• You can almost taste the pressure now.

  

  Vin Scully
  • You
  • Pressure
  • Now

• You don't see me in the club. And the reason is because I would rather be in the studio mixing these musical potions. Now sometimes they blow up in my face, and there's a lot of smoke. But that's who I am. Music is what I do.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Blow
  • Studio

• Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Like
  • Teeth
  • Divided

• I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Done
  • Feel
  • Television

• I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Want
  • Criticism

• Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

  

  Gary Becker
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• There's some freedom that you get with indie films that you don't get with the big-budget ones. There's just a different style. I hope I can switch back and forth for the rest of my career, but I've kind of grown up on indies, and there's nothing better than working with these directors so closely and and being such a huge part of the process.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Different
  • Hope

• If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Live
  • Love
  • Relationships

• I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting
  • Heroes

• I just followed my parents' example and advice on living, which was to leave the world a better place than you found it. They were professional do-gooders, ministers of the church, social workers, teachers, and missionaries, that sort of thing.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • World
  • Parents
  • Church

• The stability of what's called the Standard Model of particle physics and its ability to make so many clever predictions with immense precision suggests that we may just be stuck with it, and there may never be an overthrow of that.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • May
  • Model
  • Clever

• I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Character
  • Problem

• I firmly believe that the benevolent Creator designed the republican Form of Government for Man.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Believe

• 'I’ll do everything I can to help, I promise.''You always have,' Emily murmured. Except tell me the truth about anything.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Truth
  • Help
  • Promise

• My thing about looking good is that it should be the character. If I'm playing a character who's concerned about his body - an athlete, say - I'll get in shape. If I'm playing a character who doesn't or wouldn't, I don't. I almost never get in shape for a movie, even though I know it would be a good career move.

  

  Aidan Quinn
  • Good
  • Character
  • Movie

• I prefer a change of surroundings anyway, and I like to be around some energy and white noise, so I usually go to a Barnes & Noble cafe or to the library on 5th and 42nd. In the afternoons, I do research, reading, editing, and play with the kids.

  

  Douglas Brunt
  • Kids
  • Energy
  • Reading

• Even if you overcome a tremendous challenge and feel the personal victory, it's simply not powerful enough. It may activate your left brain, which says, 'I have achieved,' but it will not activate your more social right brain, which desperately desires to say, 'Look, Ma, I did it!'

  

  Brendon Burchard
  • May
  • Powerful
  • Brain

• I try to concentrate on quality clothing and accessories that are worth having, and to get my people to take fewer trips by air and stay longer each time they travel. It’s more human, especially if they take time to visit an art gallery while there.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • People
  • Trying
  • Art

• You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

  

  James Agee