The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable.
The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don’t have no down time.
If ‘Trek’ is a hit, we’d love to do a series of films – a regular event. Look at James Bond’s films. They’ve been around since the early sixties.
The James Brown we saw tended to be the James Brown we chose to see: as the caped crusader of funk and soul, adored by millions, or as the face in a seemingly endless series of mug shots. The ways in which he appealed to and appalled different audiences made Brown a kind of national Rorschach test.
I would never do ‘Dancing With The Stars,’ because it’s just not fair. I am too good of a dancer. It would be like LeBron James playing little league basketball.
But that kind of falls in line; when you think about it, James Brown was a funk minimalist. All of those parts create a sum that’s larger than than the individual parts.
I have faced many, but the most annoying was James Milner. He follows you forward and follows you backwards. It’s very difficult because he attacks you and defends you, and then attacks you and defends you again.
I’m coming from a Ginuwine and Usher background: slow and smooth songs. And that’s why I really connected to Sam Cooke, because he was just very smooth. It’s not like the James Brown types, which is all great stuff, but he was totally set apart from those guys.
It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.
I’m not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice… It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.
I’m always getting confused with LeBron James. Everywhere I go, I’m LeBron James.
I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents’ religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.
LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
When someone is themselves through their music, it’s soul music. James Taylor is soul music to me ’cause it’s just him talking about him. It doesn’t have anything to do with black or growing up in the church; it’s where it comes from. It’s just soul music.
My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology, which included ‘The Beast in the Jungle.’ It swept me away. I had a strange, somewhat uncanny feeling that it was the story of my life.
James Brown is the perfect example of flashy but classy. Classy doesn’t have to mean boring. His gear was flamboyant but without being so over the top. The cape was probably the biggest part of his persona. He looked like Superman.
For me, it’s all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.
If you think about it, most cinema is built along 19th-century models. You would hardly think that the cinema had discovered James Joyce sometimes.
In researching ‘The Luminaries,’ I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain, Dassiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith.
I want to hear LeBron James’s Uber stories.
Anyone can be James Dean for a day.
On one of our very first days when we tried rowing, our coach, James Mangan, showed us a video of the Boat Race. That was part of the impetus for us to start rowing.
I was always a big James Franco fan.
James Gunn runs his set like a 12-year-old’s birthday party. Every day, he is so excited to come to work.
You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it’s not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it ‘Heaven and Hell’ right from the beginning. Because you listen to that ‘Heaven and Hell’ album, that doesn’t sound anything close to Black Sabbath.
I could do James Taylor, Neil Young, and sound just like them.
Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.
I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.
There’s one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems!
I would say the main thing is, don’t just copy yourself, which is what a lot of sequels do. And in some cases, it works. Like James Bond movies. But James Bond is a different type of character.
I remember when I was about 12, I read M. R. James’ ‘Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary’ under the covers, way too young to fully understand what was going on with those stories – completely terrified but absolutely loved them.
George Clooney and Brad Pitt, with those ‘Oceans’ films they do, they get to work together, make a whole lot of money, and make a major film statement. Imagine if once a year, myself, Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, James Earl Jones, we did some relevant film together to make a statement.
Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records – John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really into Radiohead and the BeeGees.
My interior is very, very dense – Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
Nobody thinks more of James Comey than James Comey.
James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.
I’ve learned more and more on each show that I’ve done. I’ve been blessed and I’ve gotten to work with some very talented actors – James Gandolfini, Treat Williams. I’ve kind of always asked for advice and tried to take in as much as I could whenever working with them.
I’m a married woman, so I’m not bothered what other men think of me – but I still want James to fancy me.
In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.
I don’t just wanna be James Franco’s little brother.
I wanted to become a better entertainer, and I learned from my brother James Andrews. And I’ve been studying some tape of James Brown and different people.
Filmmaking has been my love since my mother brought me to see James Whale’s ‘Frankenstein’ at the local library at the age of six.
I will choose England before any other destination. My dream has always been to play in one of the top two leagues in the world. Newcastle is a good club, and St James’s Park is a monumental stadium where there is passionate fans.
I’ve worked at St James’ and in the first game of the season there the fans will lift the players.
In the days following 9/11, when we were reeling and disoriented, there was a kind of solace to be found in old recordings, and even pseudo-folk singers like James Taylor seemed to be safeguarding something, drawing back bygone days.
A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.
I am an all-around player. I’m like LeBron James. I can drive, I can shoot, I can pull up. To be honest, you can’t game-plan against me.
James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I’d never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy.
I still remember sitting in my parent’s basement playing ‘Final Fantasy VII’ in middle school. When Sephiroth came down like LeBron James on Aerith with that sword, I couldn’t talk for a full 20 minutes.
James Blake, Jai Paul, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Sohn, Kwabs, Sampha, Lil Silva, and Brandy, always. They all have soul. Deep soul.
We want to make a 100 million dollar movie that we have created, in the way James Cameron or Chris Nolan does. It’s so inspiring when high-quality auteurs are writing and directing those movies. That’s pretty cool.
James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn’t like this saddle.
I want to be the LeBron James of baseball.
James O’Keefe is a journalist, doing the work ‘real’ journalists don’t dare, and has been conducting undercover investigations for years with dozens of scalps collected along the way. The more the ‘true’ journalists who back the Democrat machine attack him, the more emboldened he becomes to pursue his next project.
It’s never been Badou Jack or James DeGale that I want to fight, it’s the World title that I want; it doesn’t matter to me who it is.
The real Representative McDermott said Jason McDermott is no relation. The Congressman does have a son, but his name is James and he does not live in the Midwest.
One of my best friends, James Miller, managed to find the only Cubs hat that is all red.
You can remember almost every Elmore James solo by heart because he was playing songs. Nothing’s wasted. Nothing’s throwaway.
