Gemma Jones Quotes

I don't colour my hair, and I look like the back end of a bus, so I get asked to play old people.

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• The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Together
  • Tree
  • Creation

• We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Society

• I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Creativity

• When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Work
  • Best
  • Cool

• I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.

  

  Nanette Lepore
  • Time
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Process

• I spent ten years riding motorcycles.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Years
  • Riding
  • Spent

• I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Year

• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Never
  • Air
  • Before

• The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Future
  • Past
  • Change

• Actors don't have real value.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Real
  • Value
  • Real Value

• You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

  

  Beck
  • Inspiration
  • Record

• It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Know
  • Stupid
  • Doing

• Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Important
  • Support
  • Taken

• Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Different
  • Enjoy
  • Afternoon

• We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Time
  • Joy

• The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Air
  • Ability
  • Consumers

• Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Time
  • Work
  • Passionate

• Politeness is organized indifference.

  

  Paul Valery

• The whole consideration of - ... am I being compared as such and such's grandson and son - that was minuscule compared to the problems I was having just working... I didn't have time to start worrying about who I was in the eyes of the public.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • Time
  • Eyes
  • Son

• I took the decision that everything I would post would be positive. If you say, 'Ahh, I feel terrible today,' and you spread that to the eyes and ears of millions of people, that's not good.

  

  Jerome Jarre
  • People
  • Good
  • Today

• If China is doing business with a company that ends up putting money back into proliferation activities, then we'll sanction that company and China.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • Up
  • Money
  • Business

• Instead of yelling your opinion, or telling people to shut up, or engaging in this clickbait-internet culture, have a dialogue with someone and ask people questions and listen to what they have to say.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • People
  • Up
  • Culture

• I don't colour my hair, and I look like the back end of a bus, so I get asked to play old people.

  

  Gemma Jones
  • People
  • Hair