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

• I will say that anyone who supports Scottish independence should go to Athens. Because nothing works. It is a disaster. It is a ruined, dirty place where people do not have money or future prospects. The day one after independence, Scotland would be worse.

  

  Philip Kerr
  • People
  • Money
  • Future

• I grew up thinking Margaret Cho and Lucy Liu were my idols because that's it.

  

  Nora Lum
  • Up
  • Thinking

• It may be a cliche, but cliche or not, I fear the day when the only marsh harriers or peregrines I can look at are in paintings by Joseph Wolf or Bruno Liljefors - and no matter how beautiful those works may be, life is the great thing: life, life, life.

  

  John Burnside
  • Life
  • Great
  • May

• We're definitely a better team, everybody can see that by the way we're playing.

  

  Bobby Frasor
  • Team
  • Playing

• I tried to embrace the concept of the sampler as an instrument, looking at how to take it artistically to another place where it can be appreciated, more than just taking someone's song and doing a 4-bar loop.

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Song
  • Embrace
  • Instrument

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

  

  James Gray