Jonathan Coleman Quotes

Race is a subject about which there are points of agreement, and about which there is no agreement; a subject that is either spoken of reluctantly, or not spoken of at all.

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• I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • War
  • Film
  • Knew

• But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Life
  • Know
  • Day

• My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Mother

• That's your dream, to get paid and take care of your family. But you still want to win, too.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Family
  • Dream
  • Win

• He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Painting

• I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Way
  • Player
  • Guitar

• If I had it to do over, I might have finished school first, then devoted all my time to StumbleUpon instead of dividing my time between the two. In the end, however, it was probably good to take the time I did.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Today
  • Career
  • Hate

• I grew up really close to Alabama, about 10 minutes from the Alabama line. We'd make trips to Alabama, and I feel at home there.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Home
  • Feel

• Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Ambition

• It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Art
  • Remember
  • Guy

• I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Building

• The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where 'As You Like It' is set. It was idyllic.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Up
  • You
  • Like

• Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Character
  • Bad
  • Witches

• Legal documents have mistrust written all over them. It's unfortunate, but the human DNA is so tuned to kind of taking you for granted that we tend to protect ourselves legally. That's why I don't read them as, if I read them, I will go soft. To me, the human relationship is far more important than the professional bond I share with anyone.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Important
  • Why
  • Relationship

• I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of interviewer, but I'm not it. It doesn't play to my strengths at all. I like to interview people who are interested in telling their story and tell it as truthfully as they can.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Great
  • Me

• All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

  

  W. H. Murray
  • Help
  • Never
  • Things

• I love horses.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Horses

• When I was in my mid-twenties, I was a copy editor at Doubleday, and for a brief period, it was my job to help shepherd Pat Conroy's 'Beach Music' into the world.

  

  Chris Pavone
  • World
  • Music
  • Job

• I sent you a lithographic proof that shows a fight of young bulls.. ..and if you found it worthy of distribution, I could send whatever you wish.. .I once again ask your advice, for I have three others made, of the same size and bullfight subjects.

  

  Francisco Goya
  • Wish
  • Advice

• I believe my father has and always will be the strongest influence in my life, as he has guided me on many paths.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Father

• Signature film-making seems rather dull to me; it's about finding something you can do something with and running with the ball.

  

  David MacKenzie
  • Running

• The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it.

  

  Blair Underwood
  • Time
  • Real
  • Hope

• Race is a subject about which there are points of agreement, and about which there is no agreement; a subject that is either spoken of reluctantly, or not spoken of at all.

  

  Jonathan Coleman