James Watkins Quotes

Directing is an act of interpretation.

James Watkins

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• For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.

  

  Ram Charan
  • People
  • Free
  • Service

• When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • God
  • Why

• I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Think
  • Career
  • Want

• My most joy that I have is dancing.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Joy
  • Dancing
  • Most

• Just keep challenging yourself. I think that's a great thing.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Great
  • Think
  • Yourself

• Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Help
  • Reality
  • Christmas

• It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Thoughts
  • Choice
  • Express

• I have been accused of things that I have never done. I have been called a perpetrator of incidents while I was actually a peacemaker. I really don't know why. Yuvraj Singh isn't a party animal; he is just singled out. I don't know why.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Done
  • Why
  • Know

• Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Turn

• After Year 12, I went to Vancouver for my gap year and met an agent who told me to lose 25 kg.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Me
  • Year
  • Lose

• I hear it all the time in the street: 'It's the crisp bloke.'

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Time
  • Hear
  • Street

• When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Time
  • Risk

• I hope, that in our archives and historical filings of the future, we do not allow the techie traditions of hierarchy and false regularity to be superimposed to the teeming, fantastic disorderlyness of human life.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Future

• Let's go out there like a bunch of crazed dogs and have some fun.

  

  Lawrence Taylor
  • Fun

• A gentleman reading a poem that began withWhere is that man that never yet did hear Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen?Jonson calling his cook, asked if he had ever heard of her, who answering 'No,' demonstrate to him Lo, there the man that never yet did hear Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Reading
  • Gentleman

• Même au point de vue des plus insignifiantes choses de la vie, nous ne sommes pas un tout matériellement constitué, identique pour tout le monde et dont chacun n'a qu'à aller prendre connaissance comme d'un cahier des charges ou d'un testament; notre personnalité sociale est une création de la pensée des autres.

  

  Marcel Proust

• I cannot pretend to throw the least light on such abstruse problems. The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an Agnostic.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Light
  • Beginning

• I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • Good
  • Father
  • Singing

• Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

  

  Christopher Lasch

• We must continue to invest at the local level to help cities, towns, and villages retain teachers, police, firefighters, and other community-enhancing service providers.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • Help
  • Community
  • Service

• I look at all the ingredients of a film and say, 'Is this a positive thing that I'm putting into the world? Is there honor and respect in the way the story is being told about them? And would they approve of that?'

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • World
  • Respect
  • Positive

• 'When it is time to dress, make-up, take your bath and eat, it is time to hurry. Those things have little to do with your future. Don’t waste your time on what cannot guarantee your future; your mirror keeps deceiving you.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Up
  • Time
  • Future

• We were criticized throughout that investigation for being too thorough, for taking too long. But time has proved the correctness of that approach.

  

  Ken Starr
  • Being
  • Approach
  • Investigation

• Directing is an act of interpretation.

  

  James Watkins