Lennie James Quotes

I love writing but don't get a huge amount of time to do it.

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• The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Resolve
  • Our
  • Collective

• We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Back
  • United States
  • Meet

• Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Uniqueness

• What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Responsibility
  • Greed

• I'm very physical. I love to work out; I'm very athletic. It's a great therapy, not only for my body, but for my mind.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Work
  • Great
  • Mind

• I never feel there's anything I can't do.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Never
  • Feel
  • Anything

• I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Like
  • Author
  • Very

• I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Day
  • Doing
  • Coaching

• You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Money
  • Power
  • Story

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Better
  • Red
  • Argument

• Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Why
  • Name
  • Hindsight

• When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.

  

  Valerie June
  • Music
  • Different
  • Song

• The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Free

• I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Love
  • Wish

• I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Great
  • Like
  • Artist

• Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Experience
  • Never
  • Couple

• Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Time
  • Best
  • Same

• Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Writing
  • Together
  • End

• Everything I ever projected New York to be, it was-even the stinky, ratty, vomity part of it. Everybody has to do the subway. Everybody has to smell the same smells. And people get mad all the time. When people don’t like something, like ‘Get out of my way you blah, blah, blah.’ But in L.A. it’s like, ‘How ya doing? Let’s do lunch! I love you!’

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • People
  • Time
  • Mad

• I would say it was about time that you believe in something. And sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll ain't it.... A lot of people used to think they were.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I don't think it's unethical to have a wife volunteer to have a piece of her liver given to her child or her husband. I think it's even ethical to do for friends.

  

  Arthur Caplan
  • Piece
  • Ethical
  • Liver

• I love writing but don't get a huge amount of time to do it.

  

  Lennie James
  • Time
  • Writing