James Gray Quotes

I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.

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• What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Desire
  • Space
  • Innovation

• I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Country
  • American
  • Guy

• I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.

  

  K. Flay
  • Different
  • Important
  • Think

• I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Day

• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Friend

• Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'

  

  Ted McGinley
  • You
  • Easy
  • Hollywood

• I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Good
  • American
  • English

• I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Fear
  • Wife
  • Travel

• When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Long
  • Me
  • Short

• I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Hope
  • Today
  • Tomorrow

• I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Guy
  • Party
  • Skinny

• Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Money
  • Me

• All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Looking
  • Big
  • Market

• I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Never
  • Down
  • Phone

• We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Learning
  • Process
  • Mistakes

• I missed the television train at some point. I don't know what happened, but now I've created a complex about it. I'm missing out on what everybody's watching, and now I can't even begin to think about starting to watch a television show because it's been so long. I don't even have a Netflix account.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Long
  • Think
  • Missing

• I just sing. You have to use it.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • You
  • Just
  • Sing

• The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Service

• The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!

  

  Larry Williams
  • Time
  • Day
  • Down

• 'Twilight' is very different to the 'Vampire Academy,' completely.

  

  Dominic Sherwood
  • Different
  • Vampire
  • Twilight

• We have a lot of depressed people in the world because they don't know what their purpose is in life.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I seem to get motivated a few months at a time, and then something stressful breaks the routine, and I just fold.

  

  Chris Farley
  • Time
  • Motivated

• Redeployment is a regular exercise undertaken after a review of the situation in the state. Last year we reduced troops voluntarily.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • Exercise
  • Troops
  • Redeployment

• I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.

  

  James Gray
  • People
  • Different