The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.
I wanted James Carville to never die. I wanted Dylan, the poet, to not die. I wanted to put these people in a place where they would be inviolate. It wasn’t enough to have a still life of them. I wanted to surround them with the lives they led.
I didn’t fool myself into thinking I was world class just because I’d beaten James DeGale.
I’ve studied a lot of great people over the years – Pete Seeger, James Brown – and tried to incorporate elements that I’ve admired, though I can’t say I dance like James.
The first songs I learned was ‘Crazy’ by Patsy Cline and ‘At Last’ by Etta James. I had been growing up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, great bands.
Guys like Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, they’ll take bad criticism in a good way.
Sometimes it irks when people come up in the street and say, ‘Oh I’m a huge James Bond fan’ – when you obviously want them to be a fan of your work in particular.
Queerness isn’t just Lady Gaga and overpriced drinks and fauxhawks. It’s James Baldwin and Bea Arthur and Gertrude Stein and Gore Vidal.
I’m a true woman, not a Bond girl. That’s why I say all the time, ‘James Bond lady,’ ‘James Bond woman.’
As Bob Dole found out, you can’t keep a positive image while being your party’s mouthpiece in Congress. That’s why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.
I don’t take modern hip-hop as real. It’s entertaining, it’s fake, like James Bond.
James Comey is a corrupt, narcissistic weirdo.
It was an act of patriotism when we worked to pass a law allowing the prosecution of federal hate crimes in the name of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd.
James Blake is a real good friend of mine. He’s real different than what you thinks. He’s super turned up.
I don’t mind being criticised, but hearing yourself described as the next James Blunt – that hurts.
The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren’t this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who’s rippled with muscles.
Millions of guys play millions of basketball games every day of the week at the playground or the YMCA. But LeBron James gets $20 million a year because he can jam on all of those guys. We’re always going to want to see LeBron and Kobe go at it.
When I was a kid, I wasn’t looking at the small-budget films myself. I was looking at ‘James Bond’ and all the major films, so I still have that energy. I still love those films.
It sucks to say it, but if I was to go out there and get outclassed by James Vick, I’d have to hang them up. He’s not good, he’s slow.
When I was playing James Bond, it was the best job in the world. I mean, it was hard work, all that filming and travelling and tedium on set, but I earned a lot of money, and it was not a taxing job. I just had to say, ‘Shaken, not stirred.’
My mother Tessa married my stepfather, James, when I was three and we lived in Boston for a year.
I’m just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.
There’s been about 75 movies about Jesse James, and I’ve seen about four of them. He’s usually portrayed as this plucky rebel who’s got no choice but to turn to crime, because the railway’s hassling his mother. But he wasn’t like that.
James Van Der Beek and I go way back. We were in the movie ‘Angus’ together in 1994 or 1995, so I’ve known him for a million years.
They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I’m still vulgar. I’m vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I’ve got to do something.
Where I came from in the country, there was no place to hear pop music like Little Richard and people like that. Later, I heard James Brown, Otis Redding, The Drifters, The Four Aces, The Ink Spots.
Historically, Macbeth is one of the greatest kings Scotland ever had. He was on the throne for 19 years, and he simply has this dreadful reputation because Shakespeare manipulated history for the benefit of James I, who was paying him to write the play to blacken Macbeth’s name.
People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven’t got his guts nor his very lively appetites.
That James Bond movie? The one where Bond skis off a cliff, shucks his skis, and parachutes to the ground? That’s for me. That’s what I want to be. A stuntman in a Bond movie.
You say ‘African music’ and you think ‘tribal drumming.’ But there’s a lot of African music that’s like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.
I wrote ‘The River’ practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that’s who inspired you to write them.
My father became the technical advisor for ‘The Desert Fox,’ with James Mason as Rommel. They wanted an Aussie who had been in North Africa with the English, and found my father on the Pasadena police force.
James Horner, James Newton Howard, John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Michael Giacchino, or Ramin Djawadi would all be a dream come true for a ‘Throne of Glass’ soundtrack.
There is a method to the madness of James Patterson’s success. Co-writing with him is a terrific learning experience, particularly in the art of crafting a perfect thriller. The collaboration also gives me an opportunity to access a wider global audience.
I grew up in the era where everybody wanted to sing like Mitch Ryder and James Brown. And I did, too. But I learned real quick that it hurts after a while.
My parents were really into music. They would play the Funkadelics, Parliament, OutKast; they would just play that all around the house. They’d also play Isaac Hayes, Marvin Gaye, James Brown.
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George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House.
One of the things my dad and I got to bond over was going to the San Antonio Spurs games when Gervin was there, James Silas… I can’t remember the rest of the guys’ names, but it was a fun time.
The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James’s Park Tube station in London.
My favourite authors are Jeffrey Archer, for his story telling skills; John Grisham, for the completely new genre he created; and James Patterson, for the way he created a new business model out of writing.
I saw myself as an electronic joy rider. I was like James Bond behind the computer. I was just having a blast.
I read James Joyce’s short story ‘The Dead,’ and I love that movie for many reasons. It was the last film I made with my father, and it’s emotional for me as well as a movie I’m proud of.
My family loves movies. My dad and I used to eat a huge breakfast, and then we’d just go hang out at the theater all day together. We loved movies like ‘Indiana Jones’ and ‘James Bond.’ We were both big action-adventure movie fans. So I kind of grew up with an appreciation for film.
That’s it. I’ve said all I’ve got to say on the world of James Bond.
Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.
Doing this James Brown thing for the last couple of days has been ideal. But it’s a different kind of fun.
The weird thing about the subway is no one looks at each other. So I play the O2 in London. It’s a 20,000 capacity venue, and then I’ll take the subway to my gig, and everyone’s going to my gig, and no one looks at you. If anyone does, they say, ‘Hey, you look exactly like James Blunt, only smaller.’
I love James Brown, and as a baby, I was always dancing to James Brown.
On one level, I would prefer never to hear the words ‘James Bond’ again, but on another level, it is part of my blood and my life. And it’s the only movie in the world that offers a British actor the chance of international recognition.
Whether you’re writing a horror show or a James Bond film, I think what bubbles beneath is interesting characterization. The colors that emerge through storytelling is what a dramatist does. There’s always got to be something bubbling underneath that will erupt at some point.
In the ’80s, when I was watching Bond films in the cinemas, Roger Moore was the man. I’ll always have a soft spot for him. His Bond films were light-hearted and silly as well as action-packed. For me, this spoke volumes. It meant that, someday, maybe someone like me with a whacky sense of humour could be James Bond.
When the lights in the arena turn on, I’m Mickie James all the time.
I’ve never seen a player that can dominate a game the way LeBron James can. He don’t always have to score. He makes plays for other guys. But when the game is on the line, and you need a shot to be made, he’s going to make that play.
What I want to be is James Bond.
This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It’s all hip-hop. You can’t say that just what I do is hip-hop, because hip-hop is all energies. James Brown can get on the track and mumble all day. But guess what? You felt his soul on those records.
