James Marsh Quotes

There is a sense of emptiness when you finish any film because you're empty and you can't give anything more to it anymore.

James Marsh

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• I like wearing things that are a bit off but not in a ridiculous 'I'm wearing a huge hat' kind of way. More a socks with sandals way.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Kind
  • Hat
  • Socks

• I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Want
  • Those
  • Arty

• Most of all, I love unfussy, unpretentious, simple food made with excellent ingredients. If I'm a snob, it's about quality, not cuisine.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Food
  • Quality
  • Excellent

• I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Listening

• I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Job
  • American
  • Speak

• We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Life
  • Money
  • Home

• Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Up
  • Great
  • Achievement

• My full name's Jonathan Kimble, but my parents didn't want to call me either. So for a while, I went by Kim, which is a name for a girl or a Korean person.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Parents
  • Girl
  • Name

• I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • People
  • Love
  • Why

• As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Want
  • Political
  • Kind

• Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.

  

  Kaskade
  • Interesting
  • Artist
  • More

• If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Want
  • You
  • Serious

• I don't push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Rebel
  • Push
  • Buttons

• If I let myself go, nothing will get done.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Done
  • Myself
  • Nothing

• I have all these nice clothes that I've bought over the years, and I never wear anything because, when you have a toddler, everything gets spilled, and they wipe their boogers on you, whatever. You end up shifting a little bit, and your values shift a bit, too. I don't care about that as much as I used to.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Care

• In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Past
  • Stock
  • Tax

• At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Law
  • Moment

• I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ejaculation of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations.

  

  Alice James
  • Writing
  • May
  • Interesting

• Be careful in your relations with the government; for they draw no man close to themselves except for their own interests. They appear as friends when it is to their advantage, but they do not stand by a man in his time of stress.

  

  Gamaliel
  • Government
  • Interest
  • Stress

• Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Story
  • Shows
  • Conviction

• Everything happens for a reason, I trust that it will be for the better. Sometimes life works out in ways we can't comprehend, but all we can do is react to what happens to us in the right way.

  

  Carlos PenaVega Big Time Rush
  • Reason
  • Happens
  • React

• For me, my number one priority always has to be the music, and I'm going to work school around my music - not music around my school.

  

  Scotty McCreery
  • Work
  • Music
  • School

• There is a sense of emptiness when you finish any film because you're empty and you can't give anything more to it anymore.

  

  James Marsh