Jools Holland Quotes
Some acts are tricky. Eartha Kitt was tricky in a wonderful, old-style way. She did yoga on the piano and put her hands over her ears when the other acts were on.
Quotes to Explore
-
Winning is everything in Hollywood.
-
I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
-
People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.
-
It's such an overused phrase: 'to be part of the conversation.' But it's true. It is nice to be part of the conversation - just be sure they are talking about you in the right way.
-
Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
-
I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
-
I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
-
When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
-
It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
-
Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.
-
I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
-
I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.
-
I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.
-
When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
-
I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.
-
I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.
-
When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
-
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
-
It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.
-
The general commanding congratulates his troops on their brilliant and successful occupation of Roanoke Island. The courage and steadiness they have shown under fire is what he expected from them, and he accepts it as a token of future victory.
-
We've all seen 'Network' and 'Wag the Dog,' but we were somehow insulated by the fact that those were just movies, fictions, and we could rest easy that the Real News doesn't operate that way. Well, it does - sometimes.
-
In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
-
I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.
-
Some acts are tricky. Eartha Kitt was tricky in a wonderful, old-style way. She did yoga on the piano and put her hands over her ears when the other acts were on.
