James Clavell Quotes

What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?

James Clavell

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• I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

  

  Kate Moss
  • School
  • Lost
  • Kind

• It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Friends
  • Know
  • More

• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Someone

• It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • People
  • Fall
  • Easy

• I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Thought
  • Name

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Important
  • Me

• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • World
  • May

• From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Nervous

• I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Why
  • Man

• I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Mind
  • Justice
  • Star

• There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Broken
  • Wine
  • Drunk

• Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Thoughts
  • New

• A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Love
  • Couple
  • Born

• I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff.

  

  Billy Campbell
  • Up
  • War

• I was a rabid 'Seinfeld' fan. Then I did the show, and it ruined the show for me. Not that it ruined the quality of the show, but I had seen behind the curtain at Oz.

  

  W. Earl Brown
  • Quality
  • Show
  • Fan

• We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• By decarbonizing the global economy and limiting climate change, world leaders can unleash a wave of innovation, support the emergence of new industries and jobs, and generate vast economic opportunities.

  

  Johan Rockstrom
  • World
  • Support
  • Innovation

• Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand intact, let us know neither prison nor ill repute nor disruption of ties ... " There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison, and death in its wake.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Time
  • War
  • Death

• What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?

  

  James Clavell
  • Life
  • Death
  • Sky