Lennie James Quotes

One of the things I liked about playing Tony Gates in 'Line of Duty' was that I don't think he gave much thought to justifying his actions until he was under investigation.

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• The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • Beautiful
  • Sometimes
  • Blush

• My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who was in the third grade at the time.

  

  Ed Emberley
  • Time
  • Book
  • Green

• I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Up
  • She
  • Book

• What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

  

  P. D. James
  • Child
  • Give
  • Later

• Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Doubt
  • Wise

• I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Why
  • Career

• The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Nature
  • Passion
  • Flame

• The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Love
  • Words

• I always put on Chanel No 5 after I've had a bath or before I go to bed. If I'm going out, I'll layer other fragrances on top.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Bed
  • Top
  • Bath

• You guys know the way I play. And what's so ironic is, KG is the same way. I'm looking at him in practice and going, 'Wow, I'm always that guy,' you know?

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Practice

• I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • People
  • Think
  • Poetry

• You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • You
  • Listen

• My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Long
  • School
  • Home

• The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.

  

  Sally Ride
  • American
  • Space
  • Woman

• You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that's great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we'll see.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Great
  • Job
  • Movie

• Good and evil ! good and evil ! ye are mingled inextricably in the web of our being ; and who may unthread the darker yarn ?

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Good
  • May
  • Evil

• We are to a large extent an imitative society.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Society

• If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

  

  Keith Jarrett
  • Music
  • Why

• Our bodies have a finely tuned, built-in detoxifying system: It's called our liver, and it can detoxify our bodies better than any cleanse or fast without the unpleasantness and danger of muscle cramps, dehydration, and diarrhea associated with artificial cleanses.

  

  Harley Pasternak
  • Bodies
  • Liver
  • Diarrhea

• When you model, you don't really have control over your image. It can be a good thing, it can be a bad thing. It can be a good thing in the sense that, actually, you have to get reintroduced to yourself. You don't always get that opportunity in your normal life. You can kind of hide from yourself.

  

  Philomena Kwao
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• Joey Porter is not one of the people I have respect for. His unprofessionalism is ridiculous.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • People
  • Respect

• One of the things I liked about playing Tony Gates in 'Line of Duty' was that I don't think he gave much thought to justifying his actions until he was under investigation.

  

  Lennie James