James Young Quotes

These are the kids that are the most abused of all kids.

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• I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Thought
  • Sexy

• I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Work
  • Feels
  • Impression

• The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Movie
  • Wisdom
  • Gay

• As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Love
  • Child
  • Vocalists

• A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • American
  • America

• I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Girl

• The big things I've had are things I bought myself.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Myself
  • Big
  • Big Things

• I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Religion
  • Dog

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Black
  • Best
  • Black-and-white

• I have the idea that anyone who has ever heard my name has the distinct impression that I was put under the sod years ago just before they buried Lillian Russell.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Years
  • Idea
  • Name

• I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Writing
  • Want

• I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Eyes

• Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Home
  • Sleep
  • Baby

• I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Father
  • Compassion

• New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Business
  • Character

• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

  B. B. King
  • Different
  • Love
  • Like

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Real
  • Art
  • Reality

• We didn't have reruns back then, so when the show ended we thought it was over. I'm overwhelmed by how long the show has been popular and by how many people still love it today. I still watch the reruns and just laugh! Here in Mount Airy they show the Andy Griffith Show at 3:30 in the afternoons and they call it "Andy After School", but the show wasn't just for kids, it was for everyone.

  

  Betty Lynn
  • People
  • Love
  • Kids

• What I really wanted to do, actually, was stay home and be a mom and have some more kids.

  

  Suzy Amis
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Wanted

• It stayed with me - the Bible has stayed with me. I've grown out of it because, obviously, you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.

  

  Benjamin Clementine
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Live

• Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list.

  

  Jane Horrocks
  • People
  • Great
  • Character

• These are the kids that are the most abused of all kids.

  

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