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?'

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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

• I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Rock
  • Living
  • Complain

• 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

• I naturally like that dreamy, shoegazey sound on my vocals. A lot of reverb helps, and so do a lot of delay effects on everything.

  

  Washed Out
  • Sound
  • Everything
  • Delay

• I think of 'Mommy' as very simplistic or not simplistic, but I wish for the style to actually work with what you see onscreen and what you feel in that very moment. I hope we did not disrespect the characters by being too flamboyant when it's not necessary.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Wish

• 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

• Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Religion

• You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.

  

  Rand Paul
  • You
  • Consequences
  • Injustice

• I had a visit from an artist friend who basically said, "Your paintings are wonderful. Now stop." It did resonate with me. It hit on the percolating need for change that was already there. I got a little push. I did a group of the paintings early on that were among the best. It was sort of beginner's luck with these.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Stop
  • Friend
  • Luck

• There simply aren't enough constitutional safeguards in place to protect against a rogue president.

  

  Jeff Vandermeer

• Sadly, I haven't been doing a lot of kissing lately.

  

  Chloe Sevigny

• My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • My Life
  • Consider
  • First Place

• Failure is part of discovering the problem you need to be working on. If, as an entrepreneur, you are afraid to fail or to admit the failure of your efforts, then you completely lose any chance at being able to adapt and succeed at finding the problem that needs solving.

  

  Caterina Fake
  • Problem
  • Effort
  • Chance

• 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