Steve Jones (Stephen Philip Jone) Quotes
It's not every day you get to create a band like the Sex Pistols, and what it changed, on a musical level. I love that we've done something that was important.
Quotes to Explore
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.
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Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.
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I shake hands on the first date.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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'No I'm not no loser, I'll see you in Hell.'
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I still have deep respect for the evangelical tradition and feel, in many ways, close to the Baptist roots of my childhood, although I've been an Episcopalian throughout my adult life and a regular churchgoer.
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Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
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As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories.
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My father was one of ten children.
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There are no sure answers, only better questions.
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When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.
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The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.
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I joined a band to hit things.
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I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.
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It seems a strange thing, but once I was able to get past that kind of self-image problem, I was able to open up in my comedy work and just go all out, take chances, and have fun with the performance aspect of that.
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It's not every day you get to create a band like the Sex Pistols, and what it changed, on a musical level. I love that we've done something that was important.
