James Fenton Quotes

Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.

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• I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Boy
  • Delhi
  • Bengali

• Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Rest

• I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Focus
  • Same
  • Author

• 'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • World
  • American
  • Jews

• I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Coffee

• Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Time
  • Different
  • Joy

• It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Great
  • She
  • Play

• People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Enemy
  • Child
  • Being

• The market for local advertising is in the billions.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Market
  • Advertising
  • Local

• I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Believe
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• Close friends consider me a literary snob.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Friends
  • Me
  • Literary

• My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Children
  • She
  • Happy

• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• I can be not showered and dressed like a slob, but my lip gloss will be on!

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Will
  • I Can
  • Dressed

• One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • View
  • Meat
  • Humane

• I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Act
  • Puppets
  • Toy

• Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Man
  • Justice
  • Violence

• I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Running
  • Moon
  • Nervous

• On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • History
  • Age

• Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn't just the culture or the class divide or the historical baggage - it was also the age difference. We had to see if I could be aged-up legitimately, without it becoming some sort of hokey acting challenge.

  

  Brendan Gleeson
  • Up
  • Different
  • Age

• Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.

  

  Marion Chesney
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Eyes

• Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.

  

  James Fenton
  • Age