James St. James Quotes

I can be an incredibly fabulous person, and I don't have to be in the highest heels, the tallest wig, the skimpiest outfit. I can let other things speak for me now.

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• It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Fun
  • Funny

• I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Think
  • Feel
  • Media

• Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • You
  • Find
  • Shopping

• I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Up
  • Love
  • Single

• I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Up
  • Always
  • New

• I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Always
  • Adolescent
  • Anorexia

• I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Life
  • Good
  • Idea

• I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • Men
  • Never
  • Loved

• We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Powerful
  • Environment
  • Poor

• I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Myself
  • Street
  • Woods

• People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Different
  • Better

• When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Soul

• If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Long
  • Control
  • Myself

• And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Up
  • High
  • Rock

• The Value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Value

• It's nowhere in here And its everywhere else that I don't wanna be, But I'm stuck here getting misty over you I'm alone on a bicycle for two.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Alone

• Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.

  

  Hyman G. Rickover
  • Writing

• R. A. Fisher, J. Neyman, R. von Mises, W. Feller, and L. J. Savage denied vehemently that probability theory is an extension of logic, and accused Laplace and Jeffreys of committing metaphysical nonsense for thinking that it is.

  

  Logic
  • Thinking
  • Logic
  • Savage

• I've always been very ambitious, and I always knew that I wanted something else. Cuba was a good start, but I knew I wasn't going to develop a real career, and I wanted to get closer to filmmakers that I wanted to work with.

  

  Ana de Armas
  • Good
  • Work
  • Real

• To play these twisted, tormented characters is very draining. You have to sit in the pocket of that character for the duration of the shoot, which is normally an average of three months, and that can be taxing!

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
  • Character

• I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

  

  bell hooks
  • Life
  • Ignorance

• Some people have called the book the 'bible of software engineering'. I would agree with that in one respect: that is, everybody quotes it, some people read it, and a few people go by it.

  

  Fred Brooks
  • People
  • Book
  • Respect

• I can be an incredibly fabulous person, and I don't have to be in the highest heels, the tallest wig, the skimpiest outfit. I can let other things speak for me now.

  

  James St. James