Felicity Jones Quotes
I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
Quotes to Explore
-
The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
-
Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
-
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
-
I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
-
Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
-
Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.
-
I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
-
My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
-
Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
-
I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
-
Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
-
People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
-
My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
-
People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
-
The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
-
I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
-
To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
-
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
-
The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.
-
Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption.
-
Parisian women have an inner elegance that's envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ageing and seem to acquire more charisma and beauty with time. Who wouldn't want to be like them? That's the trick - to embrace the natural progression of life and to be confident.
-
I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books.
Garry Kasparov -
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
-
I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
