James Bay Quotes
There was a guitar that my uncle owned and never learnt to play. He sold it to my dad, and when I heard 'Layla', that was the tune that really grabbed me. I said to my dad, 'Wait, there's a guitar, right?'
Quotes to Explore
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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I don't do negative things.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.
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But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
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Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
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When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group.
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Mothers and daughters find in each other the source of great comfort but also of great pain. We talk to each other in better and worse ways than we talk to anyone else.
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'Friends', even though it was the longest single job I've had, still to me at the end of the day, when it was over it was a job.
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When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write a completely fantastic novel with ghosts and everything, the effect is less powerful than if you portray an absolutely realistic situation and, in the middle of this, you put a layer of fantasy, of mystery.
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There was a guitar that my uncle owned and never learnt to play. He sold it to my dad, and when I heard 'Layla', that was the tune that really grabbed me. I said to my dad, 'Wait, there's a guitar, right?'
