E. L. James Quotes

I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.

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• I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Music
  • Books
  • Lie

• Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Work
  • Football
  • Fitness

• When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Music
  • Africa
  • Blues

• It's interesting to know how much you are worth.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Know

• I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • She
  • Job
  • House

• I'm not a very technical musician at all.

  

  Washed Out
  • Musician
  • Very
  • Technical

• Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Life
  • Me
  • Emotional

• I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Age
  • Think
  • Man

• We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • End
  • Cutting
  • Build

• AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Think
  • Healthy
  • Solution

• I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Myself
  • Fight
  • Prepare

• America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Me
  • Ladies
  • Gentlemen

• The pace of television is very different from film.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Different
  • Film
  • Television

• I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Life
  • Done
  • Mistake

• What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Love
  • Religion
  • For Her

• Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Want
  • Sex
  • Just Because

• When you fall in love, you become weak.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Her

• There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Money
  • Together
  • Movie

• Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Think
  • Hero
  • motivation

• Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• If the past decade was the decade of searching and finding and looking for stuff, this coming decade is going to be the decade of filtering and going to your friends for recommendations.

  

  Esther Dyson
  • Searching
  • Decade
  • Recommendations

• Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.

  

  Kalle Lasn
  • Time
  • History
  • Mother

• I went through my whole life wanting to feel I belonged. I was very, very lonely, so I would marry people that I wasn't really in love with, and who weren't right for me, because I hoped they would be.

  

  Lana Wood
  • People
  • Life
  • Feel

• I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.

  

  E. L. James
  • Never
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