James Arthur Quotes

I've made mistakes, and I'm very aware of them, and I've tried to better myself from those mistakes.

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• People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Love
  • Want

• I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Great
  • God

• Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Black
  • Looks
  • Black-and-white

• A woman can never have enough shoes.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Woman
  • Enough
  • Shoes

• I find it's really hard for anybody to meet anyone. I'm not big on dates anyways. I still have to work that out.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Work
  • Find
  • Meet

• Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Life
  • Work
  • Trying

• Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Wise
  • Sad
  • Sorry

• The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job
  • Know
  • Try

• I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Dance

• My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Job
  • Same
  • Critics

• Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Success
  • Happiness
  • Caring

• I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • World
  • God
  • Believe

• To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward. If it's good enough to get his attention, it's good enough to produce.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Good
  • Dream
  • Attention

• When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Money
  • Movie
  • You

• In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments.

  

  Kate Bush
  • You
  • Moments
  • Popular

• I don't think my vocals demand effects. I like reverb to a certain extent, but I don't want to hide my voice. I like stripped-down vocals, but I also like crazy, powerful, doubled vocals like in dance or electronic music.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Music
  • Crazy
  • Powerful

• After a post-Bill Berry softening with albums like 'Up' and 'Reveal,' R.E.M. seems to be toughening up again; on the strength of the first single, 'Discoverer,' the band's new record looks to continue with the same muscular rock and roll that defined its last album, 'Accelerate.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Up
  • Single
  • Band

• What was the good working for freedom all your life and ending up without any freedom at all?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• What I remember about the experience is that if you went to go see 'Born On The Fourth Of July' and you happened to take a bathroom break real quick or grab some popcorn, you probably missed me. It was short, but it was memorable.

  

  Vivica A. Fox
  • Real
  • Remember
  • Memorable

• I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.

  

  John le Carre
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality ceaseless and unendi.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • God
  • Poetry
  • Attitude

• I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while I'm writing a draft, but I do listen to it when I'm revising.

  

  Donald Ray Pollock
  • Music
  • Different
  • Writing

• I've made mistakes, and I'm very aware of them, and I've tried to better myself from those mistakes.

  

  James Arthur