E.L. James Quotes

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If I knew how to write a poem, I wouldn't.

You cannot prepare enough for anything.

The mind of the performer is a very strange thing.

You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios.

I use the traditional Moyse scale books slightly modified.

I want nothing to do with privilege.

I just think its the changes that age brings. You slow down a little bit ... the writers are smart enough to write all those changes that life gives you.

I've never worked with an actor that I did not like.

I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.

Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?

I love doing theaters, cracking people up, hearing them physically roll in the aisles. But we need to get serious. These are serious times. No joke. No joke.

I have nothing but respect for HBO.

You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.

I like the prop food so much that I eat it between takes as well as on camera.

I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260-pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295-pound now.

Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely know the joy that peace imparts.

O rose! the sweetest blossom, Of spring the fairest flower, O rose! the joy of heaven. The god of love, with roses His yellow locks adorning, Dances with the hours and graces.

Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream, Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd; The heart that ne'er was charm'd by fortune's gleam Is ever sweet contentment's blest abode.

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless.

In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver.

I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.

Drumming is like film directing. You build a framework for everyone to create something together.

Every man has a mission from God to help his fellow beings.

For to keep at the top is harder almost than to get there

A critic is a man who expects miracles.

There are no working hours for leaders.

No great thing comes to any person unless that person has courage.

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.

The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had.

I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.

He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know, but as the essence of knowing.

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.

At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.

The essentials of leadership are all about the use of one's talent in the interests of society.

Leadership in its best sense has never been about the pre-determined role cast on some to lead others.

I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list.

I'm not big on reading business books. I get copies of all of them, because people want me to put a comment on the jacket. Every once in a while, I'll get interested and read one all the way through.

I don't keep up on a lot of the business trends.

I always like toast in a crisis.

Now... Just run.' [said the Doctor.]

Because in fact I only lived to write, see no sense in life, have only forced "interests," wish every night, not urgently but quite definitely I could just not wake up tomorrow.

In general, markets know more than the people who write about them.