Clive James (Vivian Leopold James) Quotes

Most first novels are disguised autobiographies. This autobiography is a disguised novel.

Clive James

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• I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Clothes
  • Obsessed

• I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Time
  • Different
  • Writing

• We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Good
  • Done
  • Start

• I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Nervous

• If I have anything, it's tenacity.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Anything
  • Tenacity

• I believe everyone is mad when they are in love, and I don't think that can ever end.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Believe
  • Love
  • End

• I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Media
  • Digital

• I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Woman
  • Clothes
  • Jeans

• The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • People
  • Art
  • Movie

• The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Good
  • Great
  • News

• Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Never
  • Famous
  • Street

• Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Great
  • Important
  • Decisions

• Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Wife
  • Looks
  • Terrific

• I took physics, and lo and behold, there's a lot of physics in 'Lost.' I think for most people, liberal arts educations are more abstract, but for me, it's been a chance to apply the things I've learned more directly. I also took some Folklore and Mythology classes, and I think that a lot of that influenced me.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • People
  • Lost
  • Chance

• The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart!

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Truth
  • Way
  • Feel

• I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so much that can be done in manufacturing, in food preservation.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Done
  • Food
  • Entrepreneur

• I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • City
  • Sex
  • Story

• It’s one thing to have guts; it’s another to be crazy.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Crazy

• If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.

  

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli
  • Relationship

• From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Brother

• Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.

  

  Louise Slaughter
  • Women
  • Dedication

• I've never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • Life
  • Want
  • Social

• Most first novels are disguised autobiographies. This autobiography is a disguised novel.

  

  Clive James