James Gray Quotes

At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best experience in Venice, both with the audience and the jury.

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• Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Real
  • Home
  • Night

• I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Remember
  • Winning
  • Goal

• The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Good
  • Great
  • Writing

• Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Home
  • Most
  • Google

• The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • May
  • Today
  • Leader

• The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • People
  • World
  • Want

• The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.

  

  Viktor Yushchenko
  • People
  • Free
  • End

• There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • Men
  • History

• I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.

  

  Flume
  • Work
  • Music
  • Think

• When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Good
  • Love
  • Bad

• The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Song
  • Positive
  • Record

• I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Guy

• The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Truth
  • American
  • Truth Is

• So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Success

• Any powerful technology can be abused.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Technology
  • Powerful
  • Any

• I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Alone
  • Rights
  • Indians

• You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.

  

  Venus Williams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• The storm and stress period of women and the new social and psychological formations thereby entailed must indeed extend far into the twentieth century. This period of conflict will cease only when woman within and out of marriage shall have received legal equality with man.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Women
  • Marriage
  • Period

• If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.

  

  Jacques-Louis David
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Justice

• As the adage goes, 'fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me'... It's time for patriots everywhere to rally together again and take back America.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • Time
  • America
  • Together

• I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Age
  • Guitar
  • Piano

• He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Me
  • Decision
  • Very

• At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best experience in Venice, both with the audience and the jury.

  

  James Gray
  • Experience
  • America