Jessie J Quotes
As an artist, I try and be controversial, and I have been a bit offensive at times. I have a view on the burka, and I'm sure a few of the Muslim girls and their families would have a view of me on stage in next to nothing!
Quotes to Explore
-
Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
-
Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
-
I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
-
There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
-
The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.
-
I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.
-
I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
-
Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
-
Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
-
For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
-
Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
-
To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.
-
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
-
Events are the best opportunities to experiment with clothes, as we have to stick to a character in films.
-
I don't really have an issue with showing certain parts of my body. I'd rather not, but it's not a big deal. Growing up in Sweden, it's natural over there.
-
I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
-
I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.
-
All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.
-
She saw time naïvely as a road laid out. You walked ahead, and you got somewhere. If you were lucky, you got somewhere worth getting to.
-
Drums usually seem to tune themselves.
-
All the sounds on 'Trapped in the Closet' - the knockin' on the door, when I grab the keys, when I walk down the stairs, the car horns - we sampled all of those things around my house.
-
I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'
-
Every day, I get e-mails from kids who want a tree - a world away from the adult world.
-
As an artist, I try and be controversial, and I have been a bit offensive at times. I have a view on the burka, and I'm sure a few of the Muslim girls and their families would have a view of me on stage in next to nothing!
