Jeff Giles Quotes

I'm definitely interested in two questions: 'Is anybody ever really irredeemable?' and 'How much are we all prepared to do for each other?'

Jeff Giles

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• I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Guy
  • Cold
  • Battle

• I really have been so, so blessed with all my leading men.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Men
  • Blessed
  • Leading

• If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Life
  • Science

• My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Daughter
  • Really

• Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Violence
  • Another

• When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Go
  • Wait
  • Outside

• Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Tired
  • Uncertainty

• I think we all have different moods - a nerd one day and cool the next. I think everyone has an inner geek, and I know I definitely do.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Different
  • Think
  • Day

• Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Time
  • Success

• I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Experience
  • College
  • Liberal

• You can't form a character without being completely comfortable with who you are as a person.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Character
  • You
  • Comfortable

• You're not a slave to those test audiences.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Slave
  • Test

• You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.

  

  Rand Paul
  • You
  • Consequences
  • Injustice

• Pleasant, the heath when it is green; Also pleasant, the salt marsh for cattle. Pleasant, the time when calves draw milk; Also pleasant, foamy horsemanship.

  

  Taliesin
  • Time
  • Green

• I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?

  

  Larry Wall
  • Daughter

• Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.

  

  Alexander the Great
  • Great
  • Done
  • Rest

• 'Until recently we were a trio. Before that, a quartet. Perhaps it’s just me, but I’m beginning to detect a trend.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Beginning

• Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.

  

  Adele
  • Writing
  • Songs
  • Album

• Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Air
  • Courage
  • Whiffs

• Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Reality
  • Conclusions
  • Classification

• I'm definitely interested in two questions: 'Is anybody ever really irredeemable?' and 'How much are we all prepared to do for each other?'

  

  Jeff Giles