Lennie James Quotes

I became politicised in my mid teens, at the time of ska and 2 Tone and the Anti-Nazi League, when I'd get dressed up for a night out in my white socks and loafers, and the last thing I'd hear is, 'Have a good night - be careful of the police.'

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• I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Good
  • High

• It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from revolution. The first is to maintain the reigning Dynasty; the second is to conserve the Holy Religion; and the third is to protect the Chinese race.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Done
  • Religion
  • Revolution

• What really matters is what's on the inside.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Really
  • Inside
  • Matters

• Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • People
  • Money
  • Success

• I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.

  

  Laura Leighton
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Media

• There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Difference
  • Victim
  • Bully

• I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • World
  • Believe
  • Lead

• Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Happiness
  • Absence
  • Striving

• When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Interesting
  • Reading
  • Language

• I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Interesting
  • Company
  • Canada

• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Looks
  • Flowers

• I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Good
  • Best
  • Thing

• I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Exercise

• I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Think
  • Choices
  • Big

• Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Long
  • Love
  • For Her

• You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Change
  • Same

• The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Doubt
  • Sympathy
  • Vulnerability

• Being in 'Doctor Who' has been so amazing. I don't think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again. I feel sad because I am going to leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Amazing

• That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • America

• When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.

  

  Edward R. Murrow

• Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal.

  

  Jerry Leiber
  • Black
  • Red

• I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Up
  • Game
  • Waiting

• I became politicised in my mid teens, at the time of ska and 2 Tone and the Anti-Nazi League, when I'd get dressed up for a night out in my white socks and loafers, and the last thing I'd hear is, 'Have a good night - be careful of the police.'

  

  Lennie James
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