Vance Joy (James Gabriel Keogh) Quotes

I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.

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• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Free

• What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Men
  • Women
  • Free

• The issue with Syria, I think for many of us, has always been about Iran. This is an anchor point for them in terms of regional domination. It means a lot to them. They are all in here.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Think
  • Always
  • Anchor

• Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Man
  • Years
  • Errors

• Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Past
  • Yourself
  • Forgiveness

• My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Job
  • Mother
  • Mom

• I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Fat

• This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • May
  • Like
  • Beauty

• I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Music
  • Why
  • Know

• The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Relationship
  • Harmony
  • Grow

• No one pays me to be nice.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Pays

• I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Writing
  • Better
  • Television

• I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Future
  • Present
  • Like

• I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Children
  • Aim
  • Consistency

• I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • Night
  • Car

• 'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Work
  • Past
  • Present

• It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • People
  • Up
  • Heart

• You just do the best you can and hope people see the potential in it.

  

  David Benioff
  • People
  • Hope

• I want us to be able to fight ideologically, mentally, spiritually, economically, so that we don't have to do it physically.

  

  Matt Bevin

• Get digital scales because, for baking, balance scales just aren't accurate enough: it's all in the weighing up.

  

  Paul Hollywood
  • Balance
  • Baking
  • Weighing

• When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

  

  Becky G
  • Writing
  • Start
  • Guitar

• I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.

  

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