James Vanderbilt Quotes

Sometimes, you'll watch the news and you'll see two-year-old boys in South Africa, wearing 'Spider-Man' t-shirts. It's such a global phenomenon.

James Vanderbilt

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• We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Experience

• The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • America
  • Company
  • Irish

• For me, it's important that I can talk to my customers all over the world. They can comment on what they like, tell me what fits - we have a daily dialogue. I can also see what she looks like and how she wears my shoes, which is a huge advantage. Thank God for Instagram; it helps me keep connected.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • God
  • Important

• We have been suckered into believing that, because there are more men at the top than women at the top, that this is a result of discrimination against women. That's been the misconception. It's all about trade-offs. You earn more money, you usually sacrifice something at home.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.

  

  Ted Baillieu
  • You
  • More
  • Build

• Intolerance is alien to Hinduism.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Alien
  • Hinduism
  • Intolerance

• Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Art
  • Age
  • Child

• When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Music
  • Art
  • Happy

• Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Diversity
  • Europe
  • Itself

• I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.

  

  Taliesin
  • Been
  • Shapes
  • Consistent

• Trump would have been unelectable were it not for the groundwork laid by Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, two liberal heroes.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Trump
  • Two
  • Heroes

• Working on 'The War Room' was a thrill, not only because we were given such exquisite access to the nerve center of Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign, but for me personally, it was so exciting to be producing my first film and working with documentary filmmaking legends D.A. Pannebaker and Chris Hegedus, who were the film's directors.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Film
  • Working
  • Exciting

• I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Hate
  • Purpose

• First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Process

• Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Heart

• I fought fires in the summer, and then I went back and did it again when I went to graduate school.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • School
  • Summer

• A representative is free delivery; she's a personal beauty consultant. Some people want that high touch.

  

  Andrea Jung
  • People
  • She
  • High

• I'm constantly paranoid that I'll be unemployed for the rest of my life... and have to go back folding shirts at the Gap, which you know... you gotta do what you gotta do.

  

  Constance Wu
  • Life
  • Rest

• People don't like success.

  

  Beny Steinmetz
  • People
  • Success

• Believe in the holy contour of life

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Believe

• However, if I can expand this to Top Cow or Avatar I'm helping the sales, however small, on my Marvel books because I'm almost certain to pick up some new readers.

  

  Mark Millar
  • Up
  • Small
  • Sales

• Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • World
  • Dream
  • Crazy

• No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Focus
  • Happiness
  • Stones

• Sometimes, you'll watch the news and you'll see two-year-old boys in South Africa, wearing 'Spider-Man' t-shirts. It's such a global phenomenon.

  

  James Vanderbilt