Jamie Blackley Quotes

In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear.

Jamie Blackley

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• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • Faith
  • Belief

• I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Enjoy
  • Look
  • Limit

• I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.

  

  Carla Bley
  • World
  • Best
  • End

• The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • People
  • Control
  • Gun

• I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Work
  • Value

• I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • America
  • Fall
  • Week

• I think people get a sense of possibility when they're on a plane, even romantic possibility, wondering if the perfect person is going to sit down next to them or something.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Romantic

• That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Challenge
  • Without
  • Actress

• I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Long
  • Care
  • Short

• When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Different
  • Dance
  • Audience

• Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • America
  • War

• To adapt a play into a movie, you have to change it.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Movie
  • Change
  • Play

• When I moved to Bombay, it was very harsh. I was nothing like what I am today. I couldn't speak a word of English. In England, people might be very understanding about that, but in Bombay, they're not very forgiving. 'If you don't speak English, how do you expect to work in Hindi films?'

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Work
  • Today

• The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them.

  

  Walter Salles
  • You
  • Problems
  • Try

• I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Faith
  • Admitted

• When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.

  

  R. Kelly
  • You
  • Church
  • Laugh

• Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.

  

  Bob Beauprez
  • Children
  • Focus

• Country music is the song that speaks to the American condition. It's middle America. Eight out of 10 people. Maybe it's not the No. 1 choice, but they listen to country.

  

  Eric Church
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• The Indian government is extraordinarily large, and it is difficult to try and believe that one leader can make all the change. This is a federal system.

  

  Anand Mahindra
  • Believe

• The one thing that did stand out in my memory was the fact that he had a well documented association with Heroin. Growing up with a somewhat myopic view of the world, I could not understand how it was that people could put a drug user on such a high pedestal (If you will pardon the pun).

  

  Chet Baker
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Christine O'Donnell: I dabbled in witchcraft, but I never joined a coven; I did. I did.Jaime Kennedy: How were you a witch?Christine O'Donnell: Because I dabbled into witchcraft, because I hung around people who were, who were doing these things. I'm not making this stuff up, I know what they told me they did.

  

  Christine O'Donnell
  • People
  • Up
  • Witch

• In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear.

  

  Jamie Blackley
  • American
  • Culture