Lennie James Quotes
The breadth of work that's possible is wider and deeper for someone who looks like me in the States than it is in the U.K.
Quotes to Explore
-
The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
-
I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
-
If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
-
With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
-
I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
-
I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski
-
I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.
-
I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
-
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
-
It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
-
Musical theater is one of my passions.
-
Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
-
I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.
-
Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
-
A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
-
My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
-
I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
-
Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
-
You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.
-
Even if we fail, we are still gaining life experience. The worst thing that could happen is that we come out smarter and more prepared for our next challenge.
-
We've subsidized oil companies for a century. That's long enough. It's time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that rarely has been more profitable, and double-down on a clean energy industry that never has been more promising. Pass clean energy tax credits. Create these jobs.
-
I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.
-
No matter what happens to you, you can maintain your own control about what you believe and who you are.
-
The breadth of work that's possible is wider and deeper for someone who looks like me in the States than it is in the U.K.
