James Mercer Quotes

My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.

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• I always try to keep a little bit of space in the year to work with other people. Because I love doing musicals, films and plays - projects where I'm not in charge, where I've got somebody else telling me what to do and I have to work with their vision.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • People
  • Work
  • Space

• If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • Future
  • Dream

• Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Life
  • Live
  • Powerful

• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Children
  • Together

• As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Life
  • Music
  • Different

• Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Life
  • Know
  • Animal

• A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Work
  • Men
  • Different

• Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Living

• I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Media

• No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Work
  • Find
  • Determination

• The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Life
  • Family
  • My Life

• The right of all of our citizens to enjoy fair and equal access to housing opportunities is guaranteed by our laws. The U.S. Department of Justice is committed to fiercely protecting those rights in order to ensure the quality of life all Americans deserve.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Justice

• My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm always reading at least one work of fiction and one work of non-fiction simultaneously. Whatever mood I'm in, there's always a book nearby to suit it.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Work
  • Book
  • House

• I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Life
  • Science
  • Look

• In the James Cameron blockbuster 'Avatar,' 3-D cinematography is the real star. The bugs and crawling creatures seem to slither into the theater seats. The floating mountains of the planet Pandora hover gloriously overhead. And the Na'Vi, Pandora's 10-foot-tall, blue-skinned natives, come convincingly to life.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Life
  • Real
  • Star

• When I'm auditioning for something, if it's not me, I really hope the part doesn't go to me. You know what I mean? I don't want to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. If it's me, wonderful. If it's not me, there's space for all of us.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Space

• I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Like

• The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Life
  • Mind
  • King

• It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, or a Roosevelt can feel himself to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, or a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Women
  • Trying

• Jeeves, you really are a specific dream-rabbit." "Thank you, miss. I am glad to have given satisfaction.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Dream

• I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Art

• My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • Life
  • Work
  • Hope