James Edward Olliges Jr. (Jim James) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
-
I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
-
We just here to do our job.
-
There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
-
I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
-
You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
-
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
-
Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
-
Producing should be a creative responsibility.
-
Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
-
Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
-
I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
-
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
-
It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
-
I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
-
I represent the 'Wonder Woman' of the new world.
-
My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
-
My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
-
Really, some of the best 'X-Files' stories come right out of science. And you just apply that 'what-if' idea. Oh, what if this were true? And that's why so many times the show is scarier because it was not necessarily improbable.
-
I never know when a record is finished until it's almost finished.
-
You have to try to grow between every fight: get back in the gym and keep working hard and find the areas that you need to work on. See what you did wrong and work on it.
-
It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.
-
Usually, when somebody really hates your book, they're not going to waste time on it, telling you what you need to work on.
-
I think probably the first time I recorded anything was mid-2010.