James Fenton Quotes
Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.
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I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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Music is the space between the notes.
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I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.'
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The most real characters in a great play are those who are so meticulously drawn that the audience could predict how many pairs of shoes they might have in their closet or how many close friends they had in grade school. Have any of our public figures been as fully developed in the media?
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I believe that our country is a richer, more vibrant society precisely because it is a multi-racial, multi-ethnic society.
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I think really good drama comes down to real human emotion. That's what makes us all tick, and that's what I've always been drawn to when it comes to scripts is real human emotion and dealing with that.
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Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.
