Lennie James Quotes

I'm not setting 'Jericho' up to be anything other than what it is, which is, you know, a piece of good, well thought-out, well put-together TV and entertainment.

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• I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.

  

  Randall Munroe
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• My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.

  

  Halldor Laxness
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• I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.

  

  Vince Gill
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• Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.

  

  Yelawolf
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• I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
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• I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away.

  

  Ursula Andress
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• I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.

  

  Nate Berkus
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• It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
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• I focus on projects I am passionate about and only work with people I respect. Without these supportive teams, partners and clients, I could never work on so many things. I am fortunate that they see the value in the multiplicity of my work and how it all comes together in a kind of virtuous cycle.

  

  Imran Amed
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• Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.

  

  Ovid
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• The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
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• People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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• Tales of cheating on school and college tests are rife. There have been instances where teachers have given students test answers in order to make themselves look good on their performance reviews. Mentors who should be teaching the opposite are sending a message that lying and cheating are acceptable.

  

  Pamela Meyer
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• It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• By the end of 2008, clearly, the al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated. They actually said that in many of their transmissions that we were able to pick up. And the Shia militia, largely those trained by the Iranians in Basra and also in Sadr City, had been defeated.

  

  Jack Keane
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• Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

  

  E. M. Forster
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  • For Him

• Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.

  

  Jack Ma
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• I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.

  

  Mandy Moore
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• I'm going to have fans and I'm going to have people who don't like everything I do. All I can really do is go to work and do my job.

  

  Jessica Szohr
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• I would never do a commercial for something that is embarrassing, and I think that people maybe have a different perspective on what is embarrassing or not. Some people think doing a Revlon hair commercial is really cool. To me, that's embarrassing, but World of Warcraft - not embarrassing, very cool.

  

  Aubrey Plaza
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• I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.

  

  Ralph Baer
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• You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• Our entire approach to the banking and financial services business is risk-adjusted returns. We believe that in most parts of the world, and including pockets in India, banking tends to mis-price risk.

  

  Uday Kotak
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• I'm not setting 'Jericho' up to be anything other than what it is, which is, you know, a piece of good, well thought-out, well put-together TV and entertainment.

  

  Lennie James
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