Brion James Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
-
I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
-
The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
-
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
-
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
-
I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
-
Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
-
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
-
I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
-
My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
-
I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
-
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
-
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
-
I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
-
Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
-
I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
-
When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
-
People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
-
I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for a whole week... We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.
-
It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.
-
For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.
-
That I am today the face of Louis Vuitton almost seems like a twist of fate. You dream back to front, wanting the rewards before putting the work in. And then you work, get on with life, and just sometimes these childhood dreams have a way of catching up with you. This is a true privilege for which I am eternally grateful.
-
Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
-
Work begets work.
