Lennie James Quotes
I did a film once in the Sahara. It was pretty awe-inspiring. I remember sitting up on the roof of our hotel, watching the sun go down, and all around me, for 360 degrees, was nothing but sand. It took your breath away but also made you feel tiny.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
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You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.
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So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.
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I eat next to nothing.
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In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
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I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
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A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
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Armenian is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.
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The good guys in my movies mind their own business, and they don't judge other people. And the bad guys are jealous; they judge other people without knowing the whole story. They want all the attention, and they're mean spirited.
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It's pretty easy for me because I have a wonderful wife. We put God first and it takes a lot of hard work.
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I know I am the first female celebrity in the world who has allowed herself to be filmed like that in an operating theatre.
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I did a film once in the Sahara. It was pretty awe-inspiring. I remember sitting up on the roof of our hotel, watching the sun go down, and all around me, for 360 degrees, was nothing but sand. It took your breath away but also made you feel tiny.
