James Iha Quotes
So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.

Quotes to Explore
-
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
-
I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
-
To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
-
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
-
It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
-
Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
-
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-
An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
-
Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
-
A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
-
I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
-
I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
-
Time was God's first creation.
-
Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
-
Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
-
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
-
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
-
First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
-
I try not to do too much self-analysis apart from when I'm actually paying $170 an hour for it. I try to keep it in the room.
-
I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.
-
I don't talk about my personal life in the press; that's how I kept my wedding a secret.
-
My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.
-
To travel is to possess the world.
-
So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.