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

• Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Bad
  • Song
  • Sometimes

• 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

• I had great cameramen like Rudolph Mate and Hal Mohr. They'd take an hour to light the proper closeup of me.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Great
  • Light

• 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

• Let me tell you 'bout a place a omewhere up a New York way, where the people are so gay, twistin' the night away...Here they have a lot of fun, puttin' trouble on the run. Man, you find the old and young, twistin' the night away. They're twistin', twistin' everybody's feelin' great. They're twistin', twistin', they're twistin' the night away.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • People
  • Fun
  • Place

• General, I have been a soldier all my life. I have been with soldiers engaged in fights by couples, by squads, companies, regiments, divisions, and armies, and should know, as well as any one, what soldiers can do. It is my opinion that no fifteen thousand men ever arranged for battle can take that position.

  

  James Longstreet
  • Life
  • Men
  • Opinion

• I played on a few Frank Sinatra sessions.

  

  Leon Russell

• Oh -- who's the Queen?" "Her, of course. The White Queen. You're just like Alice, you know. Down the rabbit hole with the Mad Hatter.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Mad
  • Rabbit
  • Steve McQueen

• 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