Gemma Jones Quotes

As you get older, your idiosyncrasies become sort of exaggerated. So you are who you have always been, only more so.

Gemma Jones

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• Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Straight

• Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Situation
  • Stress
  • Survival

• When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Mother
  • Father
  • House

• I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Film
  • Everything

• Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

  

  Ice T
  • Future
  • Want
  • Cinema

• I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Up
  • Music
  • Church

• I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Inspired
  • Stuff
  • Because

• I've been in so many love triangles on TV and in real life.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Life
  • Real
  • Many

• In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Good
  • God
  • Marriage

• I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Inspiration
  • Genius
  • Perspiration

• Mr. Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him.

  

  Daisy Ashford

• (singing) Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O!/

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Singing

• In my own prejudice ... I would have of a poet ... whose worlds would not be too esoteric ... fond of talking ... capable of pity and laughter ... appreciative of women ... involved in personal relationships ... susceptible to physical impressions...

  

  Louis MacNeice
  • Women
  • Laughter

• As far as the media goes, I'm driving in the left lane at 28 miles an hour.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Driving

• Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

  

  Arabella Weir
  • Success

• I've got this diverse education, growing up in classical music and existing between that and music that is more visceral, so for sure, I've always been interested in music from other cultures.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Up
  • Music
  • Education

• If people really, really like what we make, 10 minutes after we upload it, we start thinking about new videos.

  

  Anthony Padilla
  • People
  • Thinking

• I remember watching 'The Muppet Show' in the '70s. I was six or seven, and my dad watched it with me, and my grandparents watched it with me, and we're all laughing throughout, but I think we were probably laughing at different things.

  

  James Bobin
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Dad

• I love monsters, I love creatures, I love beings, I love aliens. That's more supernatural and more the stuff of fairy tales. Fairy tales are as ancient as we are. I love those stories. I think they're really interesting because they always have more than simply the fright aspect. There's something deeply psychological.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Interesting
  • Supernatural

• I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.

  

  William Petersen
  • Dad
  • Challenges
  • Lawyer

• The fingers feel the lines, they prod the space - your ageing face,The face that was once so beautiful, is still there but unrecognisable...

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • Beautiful
  • Space

• All consciousness is consciousness of something: in thinking I am aware that my thought is 'pointing towards' some object.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Consciousness
  • Objects
  • Pointing

• As you get older, your idiosyncrasies become sort of exaggerated. So you are who you have always been, only more so.

  

  Gemma Jones