Jeff Giles Quotes

Owen Wilson is an actor, but think of him as a sort of secret agent. He has an offbeat, indie-movie sensibility. Every so often, however, he infiltrates some big-budget movie he clearly doesn't belong in - 'Anaconda,' 'Armageddon,' 'The Haunting' - and struggles valiantly to stop it from sucking.

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• Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Home
  • Like
  • Second

• One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • American
  • Alone
  • Dark

• Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Man
  • Philosophy

• I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Know
  • Thought
  • Big

• I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • People
  • Experience
  • Future

• I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.

  

  Wale
  • America
  • Man
  • Black

• They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Group
  • Illness
  • Improve

• I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Character
  • Society
  • Political

• I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Me
  • Something
  • Happen

• I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.

  

  Tariq Anwar
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Ideal

• In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

  

  Patrick White
  • School
  • Free
  • English

• If people think I look good, it's the make-up.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Kids
  • Help
  • Success

• I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Michael Johnson, so I'd say they are my favourites.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Up
  • Think
  • Say

• I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Architect
  • Brazilian

• I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Always
  • Two
  • Actress

• So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Movie
  • Career
  • Going

• Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials.

  

  David Zucker
  • Real
  • Business
  • Together

• In some causes silence is dangerous.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Silence
  • Dangerous
  • Some

• Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Important
  • Family

• One of the things I find really hard and view as a massive drag... is that I'm losing my ability to be completely anonymous.

  

  Alexander Karp
  • Anonymous

• Owen Wilson is an actor, but think of him as a sort of secret agent. He has an offbeat, indie-movie sensibility. Every so often, however, he infiltrates some big-budget movie he clearly doesn't belong in - 'Anaconda,' 'Armageddon,' 'The Haunting' - and struggles valiantly to stop it from sucking.

  

  Jeff Giles
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