James Frey Quotes

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

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• Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • People
  • Bad
  • Father

• I've had hundreds of requests from journalists all over the world asking me to speak about Leicester, which is astonishing. It's captured the imagination.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Speak

• My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Dad
  • Reason
  • Always

• Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Moon
  • Look
  • Walk

• It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?

  

  Laura Wade
  • Same
  • Opportunities
  • Until

• Often, overeating is a way to punish yourself for the anger and resentment you're feeling - either at yourself or someone else.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Way
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • People
  • Children
  • House

• I feel very good and positive about my future. I look forward to seeing the fans and doing what I do.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Good
  • Future
  • Positive

• I'm a very consistent leader, and people won't find me different day to day. You won't have to have the sort of conversation that says, 'How is she today? Is this a good day to have this conversation?' You won't find that situation with me. I treat people with respect.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • People
  • Respect
  • Day

• A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Heart
  • Society
  • Education

• Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Place
  • First
  • Going

• I love road trips. If you haven't been on one in a while, it's time to put a trip on your calendar. Driving can help clear the cobwebs of your mind, and you can learn a lot about your fellow Americans while you're at it.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Love

• I used to break dance. I can do some good James Brown footwork. But now I think I've danced too much. My girlfriend made fun of me: 'Enough with the dancing.'

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Dance

• There were certain films where I went, 'Oh, my God, I'm doing a movie.'

  

  Salli Richardson
  • God
  • Movie
  • Doing

• I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Nature
  • Me
  • Grow

• Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do you have?' It's a very introverted process.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Process

• Whales have calves, Cats have kittens Bears have Cubs, Bats have bittens, Swans have cygnets, Seals have puppies, But guppies just have little guppies.

  

  Ogden Nash

• In these ways the war in Vietnam is poisoning and brutalizing our domestic life. Psychological incompatibility has proven to be more controlling than financial feasibility, and the Great Society has become a sick society.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Life
  • Great
  • War

• I'm on top cuz I deserve to beSo simmer down, calm your nerves at leastSpeak your words with peaceBefore you lay out on the curb deceased.

  

  T.I.
  • Words
  • Calm

• Without even thinking about it, my son uses technology in almost everything he does, large and small.

  

  Christina Baker Kline
  • Thinking
  • Small
  • Technology

• It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.

  

  Winslow Homer
  • Black
  • Wonderful

• I actually completely suck at being a bioethicist. What I do is history of medicine and patient advocacy. Patient advocacy is actually the opposite of bioethics, because bioethicists are the people who increasingly set up and justify the systems we patient advocates have to fight.

  

  Alice Dreger
  • People
  • Up
  • History

• I'm an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock'n'roll bands in the world, doing things just to the basics, you know.

  

  Brian Francis Johnson AC/DC
  • World
  • Men
  • Band

• When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

  

  James Frey