James Denton Quotes

I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really.

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• I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Family
  • Business
  • American

• There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Power
  • Question
  • Humanity

• My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Father
  • Fire
  • Lighting

• The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Know
  • Ideas
  • Idea

• We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Need
  • Group
  • China

• You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Religion
  • Without

• It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Hope
  • Imagination
  • Lose

• The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Look

• At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Good
  • Home
  • Change

• I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Theater
  • Park
  • Arena

• For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Well
  • Jews
  • Middle East

• The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Picnic

• There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Woman
  • Sun
  • Shoe

• I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Hate
  • Movies
  • Down

• My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Truth
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Marriage
  • Talent
  • Genius

• Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Important
  • Powerful
  • Dreams

• I joined a band to hit things.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Band
  • Things
  • Hit

• I want Green Arrow to have fun. I don't want him to be a tortured hero. I mean, I've written plenty of tortured heroes, like Daredevil. But it's all there in Daredevil's origin as to why he'd be a tortured adult. Green Arrow doesn't have that kind of origin. In fact, he's such a clean slate that he doesn't even have an origin anymore.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • Why
  • Fun
  • Hero

• Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Know
  • Young
  • Poet

• In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?

  

  Leo Szilard
  • Life
  • Important
  • Done

• Oh roses for the flush of youth,And laurel for the perfect prime;But pluck an ivy branch for meGrown old before my time.

  

  Christina Rossetti
  • Time
  • Perfect

• I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really.

  

  James Denton
  • Job
  • Perfect