Jamie Cullum Quotes

I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing, I didn't even send my records out.

Jamie Cullum

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• 'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Surprised
  • Award
  • Cardinal

• I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Think
  • Body

• It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Old
  • Award
  • Honoured

• Who would have ever thought that, within a couple months of getting into the WWE, that I'd be wrestling in the main event for the world championship? Then, nine months after getting here, actually being the world champion.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • World
  • Couple
  • Thought

• I wouldn't want a manicure. I'm a man's man!

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Want
  • Man
  • Manicure

• When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Heart
  • Through
  • Recall

• You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Pain

• If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Attention
  • Enjoy
  • Create

• I was not a silly kid or outgoing. In fact, I suffered from quite a bit of anxiety. I used to have panic attacks when I was a teenager, really incapacitating moments, because I had some phobias.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Moments
  • Teenager
  • Anxiety

• I have crazy eyebrows, so it's crucial to tame them. Just like your hair, they set off your features.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Crazy
  • Hair
  • Eyebrows

• Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Good
  • Down
  • Carpenter

• All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Connection

• Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Work
  • Art
  • Canvas

• I dare anyone to play like Charlie Watts.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Play
  • Like
  • Dare

• All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formation. I have to say I have a lot of concern about the numbers of women - and men, now - who are not getting the support that they need. There are not the families and the communities around that there used to be.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Men
  • Women
  • Support

• Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • City
  • Smart
  • Harmony

• Now men and women are separate and unequal. We should be hand in hand; in fact, we should have our arms around one another.

  

  Cloris Leachman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Hand

• Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

  

  Augustus Hare
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• Turkey wants to be treated by the same standards as other countries. If you compare us to some other newly accepted EU members our performance, especially in terms of the economy, is much better.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Economy
  • Performance
  • Treated

• Often, I write to feel better and to heal - to cope with things that I'm dealing with. I'm either writing to get out of a feeling or to get into the feeling, to feel it more. Usually it's the perfect remedy, but if it isn't, I focus on other parts of what I'm making that don't involve writing. If neither are working, I simply forfeit the day.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • Writing
  • Feeling
  • Perfect

• I'm pretty skinny, and I can sleep at the drop of a hat. So, take that middle seat in economy and save the money for other things you can do.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Money
  • Sleep
  • Economy

• I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing, I didn't even send my records out.

  

  Jamie Cullum