Nick Farr-Jones Quotes

They are the tough decisions that are needed to get the culture of the game back.

Nick Farr-Jones

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• You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Why

• In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Vision
  • Persistence
  • Award

• Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Work
  • Eye
  • Better

• When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Book
  • Myself
  • Encouragement

• It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Up
  • Present

• My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • College

• Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

  

  Irene Peter
  • Real
  • Ignorance
  • Intelligence

• As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Live
  • Family
  • Travel

• I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Pain

• I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Great
  • Day
  • Dreams

• Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

  

  Sallust
  • Words
  • Beyond
  • Honorable

• My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic. It made me special. It made me different. If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Different
  • Sports

• I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficulty. But every time I wanted to do something, I just did it, from the age of 18 when I started my own theater with my friends. When I decided I wanted to act. I just bit the bullet.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Time
  • Done
  • Friends

• When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmother.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Time
  • College
  • Grandmother

• Every society seeks to establish a set of meanings through which people can relate themselves to the world.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Experience
  • Society
  • Past

• 'What is the secret of your serenity? Said the Master 'Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Serenity

• I think 'Game Of Thrones' is incredibly true to the books. I think the fans will, hopefully, be very pleased with how true to the books we are.

  

  Emilia Clarke
  • True
  • Game

• Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Great
  • Art
  • Traditions

• Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cooking the meals, looking after the white children.

  

  Kathryn Stockett
  • Children
  • Black
  • Cooking

• There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood.

  

  Dave Foley
  • Childhood

• about his father I have a real respect, and a real anger and sadness at the same time. I don’t think I’ve ever been able to do the math on exactly what it all means.

  

  Bill de Blasio
  • Time
  • Real
  • Father

• They are the tough decisions that are needed to get the culture of the game back.

  

  Nick Farr-Jones
  • Game
  • Culture
  • Decisions