Jim Sullivan Quotes

I never liked making albums.

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• Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Friends
  • Difficult
  • Him

• Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Children
  • Telling

• In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Different
  • Important
  • Day

• Quite understandably, people think that if there's a six-year gap or whatever, that it's taken me six years to make the album. It's not really like that at all.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Album
  • Gap

• When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

  

  Barry Lopez
  • Trying
  • Belief
  • I Can

• Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Done
  • Free
  • Financial

• We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Money
  • Fun
  • Records

• I believe it's a woman's right to decide what she wants to wear and if a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can't she also wear everything?

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • Why
  • She

• I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Energy
  • Foundation
  • Task

• I'm a big fan of Mashable and TechCrunch and other outlets like that, but TechMeme obviously does an amazing job of aggregating.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Job
  • Amazing
  • Big

• G.I. Joe has a heart and an attitude that feels right and familiar to me, so they could have ray guns, and they'd still feel more like real troops than many other franchises.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Heart
  • Feel
  • Attitude

• I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Time
  • Know
  • Same

• Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Children
  • You
  • Relationships

• Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • Romantic
  • Dead
  • Disney

• The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Heart
  • Down
  • Paper

• I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question of, 'What's your passion?' it's better simply to watch what you do when you've got time of your own and nobody's looking.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Question

• When I first have an idea, I'll spit-ball it with my husband: he's my beautiful ideas sounding board. I usually have a year deadline from start to finish, so I'll piss about for three months and pretend to get started. Then there's four to six months of actual writing and, after that, submissions, edits, and eventually a finished product.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • Husband

• In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Up
  • World
  • Want

• Time, like money, is measured by our needs.

  

  George Eliot
  • Time
  • Money
  • Needs

• Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all–embracing and universal.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • World
  • God
  • Love

• When I'm auditioning for something, if it's not me, I really hope the part doesn't go to me. You know what I mean? I don't want to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. If it's me, wonderful. If it's not me, there's space for all of us.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Space

• I could be a vegan in sackcloth and flip-flops, but I find fabulous boots with periwinkle cuffs a far preferable option.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Find
  • Option
  • Vegan

• When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Desire

• I never liked making albums.

  

  Jim Sullivan