James Lasdun Quotes
The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.
Quotes to Explore
-
I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
-
Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
-
Due to my hectic work schedule, I hardly have enough sleep, and my skin tends to look dull. Facial masks are my savior, as it helps to brighten and hydrate my skin.
-
I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
-
I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
-
I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.
-
The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
-
I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
-
There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
-
I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
-
Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
-
I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.
-
Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
-
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
-
A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
-
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
-
If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
-
The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
-
I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.
-
Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.
-
Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?
-
You make a decision whether you just work on the script and believe in every moment and pick out every moment, or if you sit down and memorize lines. Once you really dig into a script, learning lines becomes almost second nature.
-
One of the things I've really come to realise is that the chances of arriving at a universal truth are increased if you remain absolutely faithful to the contingencies of your own experience and the vagaries of your own nature.
-
The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.
