James Cameron Quotes

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

James Cameron

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• Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • You
  • Now

• I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Growing
  • Like
  • Glamour

• My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Mother
  • Religious
  • Expectation

• I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

• It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Believe
  • Country

• A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • World
  • Rest
  • Looking

• The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Working
  • Line
  • Destination

• I don't belong to any country clubs. I don't have this big circle of friends. Where I make my friends is where I work.

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Work
  • Country
  • Friends

• Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • People
  • Good
  • Man

• I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Child

• People do think you're more intelligent if you have dark hair. But my husband definitely prefers me as a blonde.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • People
  • Dark
  • Hair

• The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Space
  • Look
  • Stars

• So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roarBut bind him to his native mountains more.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• You see, this war came to us, not the other way around.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • War

• Thoughts shut up want air,And spoil, like bales unopen’d to the sun.

  

  Edward Young
  • Up
  • Air
  • Thoughts

• The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Nature
  • Education
  • Habit

• Today's energy mix is the result of yesterday's consumer habits, considerable investment, and various political decisions. The potential of renewable energies, now a well-established fact, is undeniable if given the time to arrive at the technical and economic maturity that will free them from subsidization policies.

  

  Christophe de Margerie
  • Time
  • Today
  • Free

• I've done all kinds of martial arts. I have my blackbelt in Shorei Ru. I'm doing Wu Shu. I do all kinds of different martial arts.

  

  Leo Howard
  • Different
  • Done

• The offensive line was getting a real good push, ... I feel if I can see a little hole, I can get to it, and that was happening today.

  

  Anthony Charles Edwards
  • Good
  • Real
  • Today

• Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Think
  • See
  • Task

• I spent so much time in my bedroom. It really was my entire world. I had books up there, my music up there, my record player. Going from my world upstairs out onto the street, I had to pass through this no-man's-land of the living room, you know, and out the front hall.

  

  David Bowie
  • World
  • Book
  • Player

• As a champion and one of the best fighters in the world, guys should always step up to the plate and want to fight Jon Jones.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Up
  • World
  • Best

• Whenever I come to Delhi, I forget about eating right and watching my weight.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Forget
  • Eating
  • Watching

• I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

  

  James Cameron