Cam'ron (Cameron Ezike Giles) Quotes

People only go to the places they have visited first in their minds.

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• There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Woman
  • Film
  • Director

• Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Religion
  • Teach
  • Cost

• A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Balance
  • Difficult

• I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Laugh
  • I Can

• The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Education
  • Really
  • Skills

• My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Career
  • Playing
  • Go

• I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Feeling
  • Desire
  • Write

• Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • High
  • Pretty
  • Face

• My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Music
  • Country

• Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Man
  • Political
  • Speech

• Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • Country
  • Talent

• We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Law
  • Know
  • Retirement

• In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.

  

  Naomi Weisstein
  • People
  • Important
  • You

• I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Creativity

• The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Mother

• I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

  

  Kanye West
  • Book
  • Autograph
  • Non-Reader

• Deep inside himself, in a place he didn't often go, where he kept the things he didn't like to think about but dared not forget, he knew that she was still alive somewhere, and somehow she was watching what he did, or at least looking in on him from time to time.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Time
  • She
  • Deep

• I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.

  

  Abby Sunderland
  • Record
  • Break
  • Solo

• To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Good
  • Alone
  • Government

• When characters are drifting away from the "correct road", or in fact from any road they were supposed to follow, they lose control, they find other goals...and possibly their real selves. All these moments of changes, of self-questioning, are like an engine to the films I make - that's where lie the dynamics I'm interested in as a director.

  

  Anne Fontaine
  • Control
  • Changes
  • Characters

• I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.

  

  John Gay
  • Women
  • Mind

• Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens; to make no noise, to leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark.

  

  Willa Cather
  • People
  • House
  • Dark

• People only go to the places they have visited first in their minds.

  

  Cam'ron
  • People
  • Mind