James Gray Quotes

I'm telling you, every film I've ever made has been hated by the U.K. critics.

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• I've always loved makeup. I'm very, very girly. I used to sit and watch my mum get ready. My mum is very glamorous, and I remember sitting on her bed and watching her apply her makeup, get dressed, and do her hair.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Remember
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• The fact that we walked away from the Middle East, as distasteful as it was for us to stay involved and prevent wars, based on our long involvement there, we have helped to create and provide a foundation. Obviously for ISIS and also for the absolute barbarianism and human catastrophe that Assad impacted on his people.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Long
  • Foundation

• There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Mission
  • Statement
  • Toast

• 'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Heart
  • Right
  • Ego

• One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Wish
  • Try
  • Step

• I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Memories
  • Special
  • Spectacle

• When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Lost
  • First
  • Vegas

• It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • History
  • Hope
  • Future

• Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Long
  • History
  • Evil

• For me, there's nothing better than curling up in my favorite blanket on a cloudy or rainy day and just knit. Especially in front of the fireplace.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Day
  • Better
  • Favorite

• One of the reasons I love to come to Paris is because the decorative arts are so refined that I am always walking through one proscenium into another frame.

  

  Ralph Gibson
  • Paris
  • Arts
  • Decorative

• Normally, the law of nature is such that one who rises falls, and one who rises quickly falls as quickly. I don't know how the law of nature will work as far as Modi is concerned. But some time or the other, all bubbles burst. This bubble will also burst.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Time
  • Work
  • Nature

• Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Rain
  • Building
  • Count

• Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • About
  • Application

• Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Great
  • She
  • Business

• Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Society
  • Perfect
  • Surprise

• Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and men and women who make verses. But all are not poets, nor even good versifiers. Poetasters are plentiful, but real poets are rare. Education can not make a poet, though it may polish and develop one.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Good
  • Great
  • Men

• When I was growing up in the '70s and '80s, by the time you were 16, you were kind of expected to be an adult. By the time we were 16 and able to drive, certainly by 17 or 18 and into college, you just had very little interaction with your parents.

  

  Joe Meno
  • Up
  • Time
  • Parents

• It's a little frustrating being in my hometown, seeing a lot of family members and friends and not being able to go out there and play and practice with these guys, and help this team and try to put on a show in my hometown.

  

  Andre Caldwell
  • Show
  • Frustrating
  • Hometown

• At first I didn’t give a damn to go down in history. I wanted to win. But the more I won, the more I thought about leaving something behind. Yes, it's as important as hell to me. I want to leave something that people will remember me by. Of course, a lot of boxers want to do that. But it's not easy. Take Larry Holmes, he was the big man after Muhammad Ali, he wanted to emulate him, but for some reason the public didn’t take him like they did to Ali. I think people won’t fully understand what I contributed to the sport for years.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Years
  • Sport
  • Contributed

• Creativity, after all, does not happen on schedule or on demand.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Creativity
  • Demand

• I'm telling you, every film I've ever made has been hated by the U.K. critics.

  

  James Gray