I used to call my grandmother ‘Nana,’ so that seems right to me, but maybe I’ll just be ‘Jade’, in that modern way. – Jade Jagger
I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen. – Joe Eszterhas
I had this spooky psychological thing about ‘The Piano’ before it began, which was how everybody was going to go nuts on the set. Because a film tends to set up the way people are going to behave. – Jane Campion
I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air. – Ira Glass
When I’m writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I’m trying not to get in the way. – John Zorn
I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters. – Junot Diaz
Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us. – Jeff Bridges
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. – John Locke
In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges. – James E. Faust
What makes our product work is the way we’re tightly focused on messaging and being an SMS replacement. – Jan Koum
I don’t write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don’t have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it’s bent doesn’t actually register. It’s the old you-gotta-paint-like-them-before-you-can-paint-like-you thing. – Joss Whedon
Ever since I released my first album, I’ve tried not to use minor chords as the main element in songs. The way I sing is too melancholic. – Jose Gonzalez
I noticed that people were craving a way of reinterpreting tradition and of being Jewish without joining a synagogue. – Jill Soloway
I just try to play as hard as I can every possession. If you’re aware and you’re high-energy, the ball will eventually bounce your way and you’ll be able to make plays. – Jeremy Lin
We have got to stop being a society that turns our heads and looks the other way. – Jane Velez-Mitchell
We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support. – Jesse Helms
Everybody who is a Republican wants to call themselves conservative even if they don’t necessarily vote that way. – John Fleming
Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite. – Honore de Balzac
When I’m working, on sets or stages, my contracts specify in the rider that no plastic bottles be used. When I’m playing with my band, we all use metal and non-plastic containers for drinking to be ecologically sensitive and show others that this is the way to go. – Jeff Bridges
