James Toback Quotes

The past is history, the future's a mystery.

James Toback

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• I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Think
  • Evil

• I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Real

• God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • God
  • Understanding

• I kind of crave loneliness.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Kind
  • Loneliness
  • Crave

• I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Love
  • Strong
  • Own

• My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Start

• I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Year

• Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Really
  • Were
  • Blur

• I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Like
  • Always
  • Leave

• Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • History
  • Bad

• It's ridiculous that we are in a place where we feel like we can classify and dismiss certain groups of people just because of the way they look, or we have these standards of health - like, cellulite is something you need to get rid of. No, it isn't. It's just a part of people's bodies.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Health
  • Look

• Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Friends
  • Proud
  • Friendship

• I give dignity second place to expedience.

  

  Jack Vance

• Let us draw upon Content for the deficiencies of fortune.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Up
  • May
  • Morning

• Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism.

  

  Benito Mussolini

• The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Men
  • Women

• She has been condemned to death by hanging. A man may escape this death by becoming the hangman, a woman by marrying the hangman. But at the present time there is no hangman; thus there is no escape. There is only a death, indefinitely postponed. This is not fantasy, it is history.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • History
  • Death
  • Fantasy

• Esperando (Cuando Cuba Sea Libre) is probably one of the most personal songs from the new [September, 2007] CD, "90 Millas" . . . as it really speaks about the celebration, nostalgia and emotion that will happen the day Cuba is free. If we're to move forward in Cuba, we really have to have a lot of forgiveness for each other and look towards the future.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Future
  • Song
  • Free

• The future that I see celebrates those types of like-minded ideals and ideas. I don't know what's coming, but I know that we're not going to get knocked out so easy.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Future
  • Ideas
  • Ideals

• As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.

  

  Judith Wright
  • Past
  • Wants
  • Gratification

• About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing!

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • School
  • She

• Oofy, thinking of the tenner he had given Freddie, writhed like an electric fan.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Thinking

• The past is history, the future's a mystery.

  

  James Toback
  • History
  • Future
  • Past