Jamie Bell Quotes

I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.

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• In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Political
  • Team

• I have more friends in New York than Paris.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Friends
  • New
  • New York

• I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Beauty
  • Youth

• If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Up
  • Generation
  • Listen

• Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Mother
  • House
  • Special

• Say yes to everything.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Everything
  • Say
  • Yes

• It's not healthy to be jealous.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Healthy
  • Jealous

• I never starved myself.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Starved

• Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • America
  • Company
  • India

• There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard to write about Italy.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Good
  • Young
  • Italian

• I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

  

  Laura Ziskin
  • Cancer
  • Breast Cancer

• Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Experience
  • Literature
  • Bible

• I never, ever thought I would be able to grow a beard like I have now. I think it's gonna be here for a little minute. Fear the beard, hopefully.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Fear
  • Thought
  • Beard

• I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Like
  • Run
  • Seem

• I was so naive in radio technique that I knew nothing about timing. I would write pages on Honus Wagner and then get only half through by the time the show ended. I eventually learned, but there was nobody there to school me.

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • Time
  • School
  • Me

• With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Song
  • Tried
  • Traditional

• It's nice to have boundaries, because as long as we have them, we can cross them a bit, and that's what perks interest. If you have full freedom, what do you do?

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Nice

• Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Satan

• Obama issued a slew of executive orders about climate change during the eight years of his presidency. Inexplicably, President Trump revoked about half of them but left the other half in place. Since Obama's orders were intertwined, it's unclear exactly what applies.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Trump

• I've noticed that as someone who has done music and creative things in Washington state and Portland, to kind of toot your own horn, or admit, "I'm going for it. I'm hustling," is not exactly the norm. Which is weird, because you go to New York, or LA, or anywhere else, you've got to be gunning for it - and you should be - you're part of a fast-moving stream of other people who are really ambitious. People move here to work less. So, to say that you're hustling all the time, and going for it, is kind of a little bit against the grain here.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • People
  • Moving
  • Creative

• I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Different
  • Know
  • Development

• We should encourage people who have lived here peacefully for years to earn legal status over time.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • People
  • Time

• Stories create stories, create stories, create stories, or nothing gets done.

  

  Bill Willingham
  • Stories
  • Create

• I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.

  

  Jamie Bell