Lily James Quotes

I treated myself to a £700 Chloe bag after one of my first acting jobs. Then my friends pointed out that, for the same money, I could buy a flight to India. So I took it back.

Lily James

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• Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Doing

• Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • People
  • Said
  • Same

• Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Youth
  • To Love

• You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Real
  • Art

• Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Happy
  • Moments

• I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Writing
  • Enjoy
  • Exciting

• Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Thoughts

• Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Art
  • Nature

• 3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • You
  • Focus
  • Things

• In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Movie
  • You
  • Running

• I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Time
  • Know
  • Trouble

• But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • May
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Family
  • Texas
  • Farm

• I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • She
  • Chicago
  • Stand

• I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Friends
  • Community
  • Grew

• Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Job
  • You
  • Control

• I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Small
  • Eyes
  • Drawing

• The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Great
  • Problem
  • Cooperation

• Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Night
  • Sorrow

• The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her 'beauty.' Her reproductive value, as the 'aesthetic' value of her face and body today, 'came to be seen as a sacred trust, one that she must constantly guard in the interest of her race.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • She
  • Today
  • Value

• I've got no anti-America or anti-Hollywood kick, it's just that I never wanted to go and kick my heels around L.A. for six months hoping something would happen.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • America

• A good number of my friends are married, which seems very old-fashioned.

  

  Allison Williams
  • Good
  • Friends

• The main thing is to be philanthropic in your everyday life. You don't have to have money to do that. You can do it with your time and your energy.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Money
  • Energy
  • Philanthropic

• I treated myself to a £700 Chloe bag after one of my first acting jobs. Then my friends pointed out that, for the same money, I could buy a flight to India. So I took it back.

  

  Lily James
  • Money
  • Friends