James Gray Quotes

There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant.

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• I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Man

• Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Me
  • Something
  • Happen

• I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Way

• In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Done
  • Character
  • Guy

• I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Believe
  • Politics
  • I Believe

• A bad system will beat a good person every time.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• My coldest days, my darkest days, ain't no sun out, all I got is my fans. They the only people I ride for. Believe it or not, if you're a real Fat Joe fan, a Terror Squad fan, I do it for ya'll.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Believe
  • Real

• I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • World
  • Work
  • Fashion

• When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

  

  Patricia Neal
  • Heart
  • You
  • Strength

• I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Funny
  • Like
  • Modern

• Rose-Anna was tugging at the edge of her apron with a tired, futile gesture she had never made in the past – the grandmother’s gesture.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • She
  • Past
  • Tired

• People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Art
  • Lies

• If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the colour of the objects surrounding it.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Space

• Sheryl's heroes are in black and white photos, and so are mine.

  

  John Mayer
  • Black

• To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from the delirious riot of religion, may doubtless be a charitable office.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • May

• My secret skill, if it even counts as one, is saying really crass things that sometimes end up as dialogue coming from other character's mouths. My inner salty sailor is alive and well - the only problem is most of the writers on our show are just as inappropriate, so at the end of the day, it's hard to tell who came up with the line.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Up
  • Character

• There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.

  

  James Caan

• Older women have always been attracted to me.

  

  Corey Clark
  • Women

• I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • School
  • Why
  • High

• A lot of kids get disappointed. They expect me to be, like, 'Bwaah.' 'If I spend a minute with them, they end up saying, 'Wow, you're a nice, normal guy.' They hate it when they catch me out of my makeup.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Expect

• Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.

  

  David Hackett Fischer
  • Grief
  • Greater
  • Opposite

• There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Powerful

• There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant.

  

  James Gray