James Joyce Quotes

In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!

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• I'd rather be known for my accomplishments, and for things that I really do take pride in, rather than known for this doll-like image I had when I was a child.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Child
  • Pride
  • Take

• Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Perfection
  • Grave
  • Dull

• Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Picture
  • Details
  • Filmmaking

• Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Bad
  • Myself
  • Now

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Hand

• What's a soup kitchen?

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Kitchen
  • Soup

• I work with brands that I personally connect with or personally use. For example, I was already driving the Suzuki Hayabusa long before I started endorsing Suzuki.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Long
  • Driving

• I've done a lot of other shows in the U.S. that have been great, but I knew that 'Roadies' was something special. I feel very, very fortunate.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Great
  • Done
  • Special

• In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • School
  • Remember

• I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Wanted
  • Learned
  • Guitar

• When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Like
  • Enough
  • Mature

• I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Strong

• Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Hope
  • Me
  • Training

• The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Live
  • Family
  • Together

• The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Heart
  • Understanding
  • Should

• Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • President
  • Just
  • Policy

• Even if you look at the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, at the end of the movie things get really crazy and nutty, but they all start in a very mundane situation that people can relate to, and that's also to some degree what we tried to do in 'Chernobyl Diaries.'

  

  Oren Peli
  • People
  • Movie
  • Crazy

• When it comes to my career and investing into myself, I'm going to be very particular and meticulous about how I'm doing things so that I can reach the level of success that I want. I'm also going to take some chances, because who better for me to invest in than myself?

  

  Christine Flores
  • Career
  • Success

• Little miss is taught by her mamma that she must never speak before she is spoken to. On this she sits bridling up her head, looking from one to the other, in hopes of being called to and addressed by the name of pretty miss.... But if this should not happen and no one should take any notice of her, she is ready to cry at the neglect. But should there be another miss in the room caressed and taken notice of whilst she is thus overlooked, it will be impossible for her to contain her tears, and blubbering is the word.

  

  Sarah Fielding
  • Education
  • Taken
  • Childhood

• To make decisions while infuriated is as unwise and foolish as it is for a captain to put out to sea in a raging storm.

  

  ElRay L. Christiansen
  • Decisions
  • Storm
  • Foolish

• I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.

  

  Alexander Payne
  • Energy

• In 1997, I was working with Greg Wilson of Red Ball Tiger, our ad agency at the time, when he came up with an addition to the famous slogan 'I guarantee it' that I was known for saying.

  

  George Zimmer
  • Agency
  • Addition
  • Slogan

• In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!

  

  James Joyce