Jeff Giles Quotes

Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow' has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations.

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• I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Never
  • Really
  • Stopped

• Let's make sure that we don't close down 37 of the 42 clinics in Texas and leave women with nowhere to go and put them in a situation where their health will be at risk, because what we do know is that closing down the ability to access that service unfortunately does not take the need away or women's confronting that issue away.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Women
  • Health
  • Risk

• I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Believe
  • Together
  • History

• No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Water
  • Religion
  • Color

• The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Business
  • Leader

• The director had come to Madrid to court me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Director
  • Come
  • Court

• People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Technology
  • Data

• On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Hand
  • Security
  • London

• If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Film

• I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Experience
  • Actor
  • More

• The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Questions
  • Answers
  • Damage

• Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Days
  • Straight
  • Seventeen

• My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Great
  • Family
  • Mother

• You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Water

• I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • People
  • Free
  • Young

• My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Myself
  • Idea
  • Original

• The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • America
  • Company
  • Irish

• If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Dead
  • Russia
  • Lived

• We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of.

  

  Andy Taylor Duran Duran

• How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • People
  • May
  • Fear

• I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
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  • Movie
  • You

• Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.

  

  Alan Parker
  • Movie
  • Black
  • Period

• I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Breakfast
  • Bread
  • Diet

• Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow' has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations.

  

  Jeff Giles
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