Joe Dempsie Quotes

I'm the kind of person who, if I can't get something right, I get quite frustrated with myself.

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• I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Nothing
  • Revolutionary
  • Even

• I seek solutions, not battles.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Solutions
  • Seek
  • Battles

• The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Time
  • Want
  • Best

• I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Think
  • Problems
  • Abuse

• Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • Want

• I'm in an interracial marriage.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Marriage

• My go-to jeans are a straight, narrow cut from A.P.C. or BLK DNM.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Jeans
  • Straight
  • Cut

• Maybe self-publishing is going to be an extra step added to publishing. Maybe what's going to happen is you self-publish a book, someone notices it - an agent? - and it goes from there into the traditional sphere.

  

  Victoria Strauss
  • Book
  • You
  • Step

• When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Europe
  • Phenomenon
  • Operas

• When I'm out there, you just have to react. That's why you work on those throws. When you're in the moment, you can't think to yourself, 'How do I get this to go 47 yards and be 2 yards inside the sideline?'

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Work
  • Why
  • Yourself

• The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a child. But my grown-up initiation was as part of that band.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Up
  • Time
  • Band

• I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Myself
  • Position
  • Where

• I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Parents
  • Moving
  • Said

• Early education is the type of issue politicians nod their heads at, and then when it comes time to make a tough decision, a financial trade-off, inevitably it's about the first item tossed from the table.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Time
  • Education
  • Decision

• As a founder of two organizations that recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity, I've spent a lot of time examining what's at work in successful classrooms and schools over the past two decades.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Time
  • Work
  • Past

• Despite what you hear about the publishing industry being a fixed game that you can only get in if you know somebody, I'm here in person to tell you it ain't so. If your stuff is really any good, sooner or later some editor will take a chance on you.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Good
  • Game
  • Chance

• I really hate being recognised. I'm quite a shy person, and I'm not very good at talking to strangers. So when people come up to me in the street, I just find it quite awkward. I don't really know what to say to them.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• There are some people, who place enormous value on their home and feel that it defines them, that a stain on the carpet is a personal defilement. There are others, and I think I am one of them, who are entirely indifferent to where they live.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Live
  • Home

• Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Journalism
  • Catapult
  • Pigmy

• Two of my favourite books are Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tropic of Capricorn.'

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • Cancer
  • Capricorn

• I'd never thought about acting as a job. I was an engineer; I was in science and technology. I loved movies and television growing up, but I'd never thought about it as, 'Oh, that guy Denzel Washington is employed as an actor.'

  

  Ato Essandoh
  • Up
  • Job
  • Guy

• I guess I'm fortunate in that two things I always wanted to do, since I was 16, were play music and get into news media. I'm very lucky to have two things that can engage my brain at once.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Music
  • Brain

• Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was crazy because there was nothing like that in Lichtenstein when I was getting started. That's why I went to Germany, because there is industry there.

  

  Al Walser
  • People
  • Music
  • Why

• I'm the kind of person who, if I can't get something right, I get quite frustrated with myself.

  

  Joe Dempsie