Jim Hodges Quotes

I think that some works are more accessible than others.

Jim Hodges

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• Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Time
  • Character
  • Leaving

• There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Music
  • Long
  • Thought

• I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • Find
  • Lazy
  • Theater

• Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Live
  • Places

• I would say as a journalist, I would envision travelling to other countries that have had to reckon with their past and see how they've done it: what worked, what didn't work, finding characters that would tell the story of how that process was done.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Work
  • Done
  • Past

• Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • May
  • Friends
  • Think

• It's a part of football, you get concussed, you gotta keep on playing. You can't get afraid to go across the middle any more than you were at the beginning.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Football
  • Beginning

• TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers for a long time. When I started out as a writer and producer in television, I never had the slightest expectation that fame would be part of the job.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Always
  • Said
  • Now

• The government must understand that it cannot substitute the health, nutrition, and overall development outcomes of Indian citizens with 'efficiency gains.'

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Health
  • Government

• It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Black
  • Earth

• A game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Game

• It does not destroy matter, which is reassuring. Rewriting one law of physics is worse than trying to eat one peanut.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Trying
  • Law

• I cannot ever accept the kind of conditions where you can sacrifice someone’s rights.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Sacrifice

• As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Music
  • Mind

• Juanes is one of the legendary, iconic Colombian artists. Growing up in Colombia, you can't really not have him on your radar. His songs are everywhere, and there's a statue of him. He's pretty big for Latin America, and for Colombia especially.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Up
  • America
  • Pretty

• I was always into music and stuff, so I would always make songs since I was little.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Music

• When they write a bad review, and you agree with it, that's the worst feeling. When you know you've done what you wanted and the best you could and you love the outcome, then you look at everything differently. Not everyone's going to love everything you do.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Feeling

• There are more humans than all of the rabbits on earth. There are more of us than all the wildebeests, than all the rats, than all the mice. We are the most numerous mammal on the planet. But because we're not like rabbits or rats or mice, we have technology, we have a consumptive appetite, we have a global economy.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Earth
  • Technology

• It's difficult sometimes to become friends with actors.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Friends

• My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Friend

• I'm from Michigan, but I'm just as country as anyone else. Maybe I don't have the speaking voice of most country singers, but it is what I love. It's how I've always sung, and it's what I grew up on.

  

  Jana Kramer
  • Up
  • Country

• But we're such a better team than we were last year. I believe that. We'll see if it works out that way, but I believe and I think the rest of the guys in here do, too. We all want the same thing, and that's to win that Super Bowl. And if you've got a group of guys who all want the same thing, you can do some special things.

  

  Champ Bailey
  • Want
  • Team
  • Win

• I think that some works are more accessible than others.

  

  Jim Hodges