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  • I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up. -- Adam Arkin
  • People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too. -- Jim Valvano
  • I have a song called 'Decisions' that features Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, John Legend and Common. It's about people who have made a decision to really stand by you as friends. -- Busta Rhymes
  • Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because they are free of drama, display good taste and masterful technique, and use clear exposition to bring you up to speed. -- Steve Albini
  • Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx. -- Jamie Foxx
  • If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing. -- Jack Whitehall
  • I love how Jamie Oliver makes seasonal, local foods in a rustic way, without a lot of fuss. -- Sara Ramirez
  • One year I was given a birthday present I'll never forget - a cooking lesson from Jamie Oliver. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
  • I wanna chase down Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith. I would love to start my film career. -- Shemar Moore
  • I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius. -- Adam Savage
  • I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career. -- Donald Pleasence
  • Anybody can call me Jamie, and you have to watch it when you call me James. Then there's going to be a problem. -- James Cromwell
  • Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is better than Young Avengers. Better than Phonogram. Better than Watchmen. Better than The Bible. -- Matt Fraction
  • Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is a warp into the middle of a wildly imaginative mythology and I'm itching to read more. -- Rick Remender
  • I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie. -- Patsy Kensit
  • The first issue of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is a wonderful door to a seductive new world. Let's all go in! -- Fábio Moon
  • Apparently Jamie is great at being soft and hard at the same time. Which is hard to do for an actor! He's going to get an Oscar! -- Kelly Marcel
  • When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light. -- James Denton
  • I've watched Jamie Oliver 's Food Revolution, he wants better school lunches for children in the US and UK. In NZ, we want Kiwi kids to have school lunches! -- Metiria Turei
  • Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself. -- Adam Savage
  • Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument. -- Al Pacino
  • Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes or so and say, Ok, that's it, we're done. -- Penelope Spheeris
  • In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities. -- John Carpenter
  • On a day when you're tired, it's important to just say good morning to everyone so they're kind of aware that it's gonna be a good day. Jamie Lee Curtis told me that. -- Lindsay Lohan
  • When I leave the car park at Melwood, I try and become a completely different person. I try to get away from it. You have got to. Otherwise you end up like Jamie Carragher - obsessed! -- Steven Gerrard
  • That's not precisely what I had in mind." Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl. -- Diana Gabaldon
  • As much as we love being sociable on holiday, part of me craves the idea of being away, staying in a hut on the beach, and maybe not seeing anyone for days apart from Jamie and the boys. -- Louise Nurding
  • When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies, she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus. -- Eliza Dushku
  • Le Petit is where I cut my teeth with some of my early roles. In 1982, I was in the chorus of 'Gypsy' and soon after I had my first lead as Jamie Lockhart in 'The Robber Bridegroom.' -- Bryan Batt
  • I love anything to do with cooking, from watching the Food Network to reading recipe books by Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver and Levi Roots. My favourite types of cuisine are Asian and Caribbean, and I love cooking new recipes for my family. -- Jourdan Dunn
  • There remains a degree of anti-black intellectualism in entertainment. Middle and upper-middle class blacks have often been portrayed as buffoons in popular culture; witness the characters of Carlton Banks on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' and Braxton P. Hartnabrig on 'The Jamie Foxx Show.' -- John Ridley
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  • If you cut Jamie Carragher open, he'll bleed red. -- Clive Tyldesley
  • Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache. -- Sidney Sheldon
  • I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. -- Nicholas Sparks
  • It was really fun working with Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz on set. -- Quvenzhane Wallis
  • I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr. -- Al Yankovic
  • You're beautiful to me, Jamie,I said softly, at last. So beautiful, you break my heart. -- Diana Gabaldon
  • Nick is driving us," Jamie informed him. "Nick has a car. Nick has TWO cars. Ha! -- Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Get down," he whispered. "I'm way ahead of you," Jamie said from the floor -- Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Myself and Jamie Moffat did not agree on everything but he always knew I had the experience. -- Jim Jefferies
  • Going from drama to just straight-up comedy with Tommy Davidson and Jamie Foxx - what a blast. -- Vivica A. Fox
  • That's for calling your father a fool. It may be true, but it's disrespectful. Brian Fraser to teenage Jamie -- Diana Gabaldon
  • I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented. -- Diana Gabaldon
  • With people in the world such as 'Jamie Oliver' and [TV chef] Clarissa Dickson-Wright there isn't much hope for animals. -- Steven Morrissey
  • Hey, Jamie,' said Seb. 'Want a lift?' 'Hey, Seb,' Jamie responded without missing a beat 'Drop dead. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
  • I wouldna cross the road to see a scrawny woman if she was stark naked and dripping wet. ~Jamie Fraser -- Diana Gabaldon
  • That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser -- Diana Gabaldon
  • So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie -- Diana Gabaldon
  • Maybe he likes the look of Mae," Nick drawled. "Don't be ridiculous." Nick raised his eyebrows. "Does he like the look of Jamie? -- Sarah Rees Brennan
  • you might not be the first person l kissed, but you will be the last' Jamie to Claire in Outlander (not word perfect) -- Diana Gabaldon
  • Foul!" yelled Jamie, who seemed extremely happy not to be the one facing a blade. "Distracting technique! Put your shirt back on right now. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
  • I have changed my mind. You can help cook by standing in a corner and not touching anything. Do it carefully. -Nick to Jamie -- Sarah Rees Brennan
  • The problem isn't finding out where you are gonna go-its figuring out what you are gonna do once you get there that is! (Jamie Sullivan) -- Nicholas Sparks
  • Our life may look glamorous, but we scream at the kids, and I have to tell Jamie to tidy up if we have guests coming over. -- Louise Nurding
  • The first issue of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is a wonderful door to a seductive new world. Let's all go in! -- Fábio Moon
  • Dean: If there is a greater power, why is it he can't get you a new sweater? Jamie: Because, he's too busy looking for your brain. -- Nicholas Sparks
  • Jamie' is what my mother gave me, and that takes the onus off of being big. Somebody thinks, 'Oh, Jamie - how threatening can he be? -- James Cromwell
  • Looking into it a bit, Jamie found that the model used by Wall Street to price LEAPs, the Black-Scholes option pricing model, made some strange assumptions. -- Michael Lewis
  • Jamie: You're acting like a crazy person, what's going on? Landon: Right now, you're straddling the state line. Jamie: OK... Landon: You're in two places at once. -- Nicholas Sparks
  • Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents. -- E. L. Konigsburg
  • Jamie was like no one else he had ever met. She had ethics; she had moral integrity. She was clearly not corruptible, at least not for money--that test was over. -- Patricia Cori
  • You're a wonderful person, Jamie. You're beautiful, you're kind, you're gentle...you're everything that I'd like to be. If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem. -- Nicholas Sparks
  • It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few others, have cornered the market on 'offbeat. -- Breckin Meyer
  • Jamie : "I didn't want anybody to be weird around me.". Landon : "Including me?". Jamie : "Especially you! You know, I was getting along with everything fine. I accepted it, and then you happened!". -- Nicholas Sparks
  • I was motivating him every time. When it was break point I was telling him 'hit a good return because you know you are gonna get many more kisses' [on Jamie Murray -- Jelena Jankovic
  • My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser -- Diana Gabaldon
  • Jamie Kilstein is amazing and I will be spreading the word. He has the spark that energized my conscience. We need more comedians kicking it hard the way he does every night -- Robin Williams
  • It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few others, have cornered the market on 'offbeat.' -- Breckin Meyer
  • Alright, all right," I said. "What if I tell you a story, instead?" Highlanders loved stories, and Jamie was no exception. "Oh, aye, " he said, sounding much happier. "What sort of story is it? -- Diana Gabaldon
  • I saw you put rice in a toaster once," said Mae. "I was there when made the tin of beans explode." "It was faulty," Jamie protested, his eyes shifty. " I am sure of this. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Some magicians are rich, some are famous, some are stupidly good-looking.' Jamie gave Nick a rather complicated look. Nick raised an eyebrow. 'Some of us manage to be stupidly good-looking on our own. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Mae, he made me go out for a run," Jamie called out. "Tell him I don't run!" "Jamie and I are lilies of the field. We toil not, neither do we jog," Mae informed Nick. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
  • I don't know what I saw. It could've been a hallucination. You get those from sniffing glue." "You've never sniffed glue!" "I've smelled glue," Jamie said after a pause. "In art class. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Brenna jumped to her feet the second Father Sinclair entered the chamber. "I'm so happy to see you," she cried out. "Be happy sitting down," Jamie ordered, hovering over her patient like a mother hen. -- Julie Garwood
  • On Christmas Day I'll head off for a couple of laps around the Serpentine, or a trek around the whole of Hyde Park. Or I'll walk right across town, with Curtis, my son Jamie's bull mastiff -- Stella Vine
  • Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny have created an important political radio show that balances humor and unreported news. At a time when media conglomerates dominate the airwaves, independent media like Citizen Radio is vital to national discourse. -- Noam Chomsky
  • I cut the scene out, but there was a moment where Christoph Waltz plays the piano in 'Django [Unchained]' - Jamie [Foxx] is a magnificent piano-player but there's never a moment where Django plays the piano. -- Quentin Tarantino
  • In a statement to the Associated Press earlier in the year, Jamie Lynn said she didnâ??t have a boyfriend. She said, â??Iâ??m keeping my options open.â?? And by options, she meant legs. -- Chelsea Handler
  • On 'The Guiding Light' I enjoyed working with Jamie Goodwin and Ellen Parker, who played my sister. I loved working with Jerry Ver Dorn and Jay Hammer. I mean, there's some great fun people that I've really enjoyed. -- Kassie DePaiva
  • When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in 'True Lies', she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus. -- Eliza Dushku
  • I'll drive both of you," Seb offered at once. Mae nodded at him with gratitude. "No," Jamie said sternly. "I'm never getting into your horrible car. I promised myself that, because--it's horrible, and you're horrible. So take that! -- Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Nick scowled out the window. "I have friends in Exeter already. I have-those people, you know, they hang around outside the bike sheds, they're always hassling Jamie." "Those are some awesome dudes," Jamie muttered. "Don't let them get away. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
  • When you choose a villain, you need something visually exciting. And when you have someone like Jamie Foxx... you want to make sure the guy with the mask and the guy without the mask are delivering two different performances. -- Avi Arad
  • Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it." - Landon Carter -- Nicholas Sparks
  • Why, what's the matter wi' the poor child?" she demanded of Jamie. "Has she had an accident o' some sort?" "No, it's only she's married me," he said, "though if ye care to call it an accident, ye may. -- Diana Gabaldon
  • If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad for you, that?s their prerogative? But there?s no excuse for political activism masquerading as science. -- Bill Vaughan
  • Turns out he does run," Nick drawled. "Given an incentive. And he wouldn't be so out of breath if he hadn't kept shrieking." "That was not a shriek," Jamie said with dignity. "It was a husky masculine cry of terror. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
  • When I approached 'Animal Man,' I approached it as if it wasn't a reboot, as if the Grant Morrison and Jamie Delano stuff happened. I mean, as much as I could make it all make sense, it still all happened. -- Jeff Lemire
  • An ideal movie would be, like - to get this to happen, I have to work so much harder - but imagine Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy... Who else? Donald Faison. Directed by Steven Spielberg. That would be awesome. -- Donald Faison
  • I used to make my manager Jamie not tell me where I was going to be the next day, because I was so afraid of flying and of anything. But now I love flying, I love working hard, I love being around the world. -- Ellie Goulding
  • I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other's designs, and we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest. -- Adam Savage
  • Yes, indeed. San Francisco was the perfect place for a walker between worlds like Jamie Hastings to grow up in. Her soul had chosen wisely before coming in, born to a visionary mother like Amanda, and situated in one of sunny California's most beautiful landscapes. -- Patricia Cori
  • He kills people. Now I'm no expert, but doesn't that make you a bad person?" Jamie glared at Nick. "You've killed a lot more people than he has. What does that make you?" "Not a person," Nick murmured, not sounding particularly interested. "Surely you remember. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Sometimes you met someone that changed the pattern, who wormed their way past the cracks in your heart, caulked them up, sealed themselves in, and stayed there. Sometimes they did it by insisting you meet them at every step, as Jamie had done to me. -- Diana Peterfreund
  • Jamie shook his head at me admiringlyAnd here I thought I married you because ye had a fair face and a fine fat arse. To think you've a brain as well! He neatly dodged the blow I aimed at his ear, and grinned at me. -- Diana Gabaldon
  • Deftly whipping a small tuning fork from his pocket, he struck it smartly against a pillar and held it next to Jamie's left ear. Jamie rolled his eyes heavenward, but shrugged and obligingly sang a note. The little man jerked back as though he'd been shot. -- Diana Gabaldon
  • As the titanic losses were racking up, Fannie Mae's operators, Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorelick, disguised the catastrophe by orchestrating a $5 billion accounting fraud - all the while continuing to pressure banks to make absurd, politically correct loans and denouncing Republicans as enemies of the poor. -- Ann Coulter
  • I think at this point, there's a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can't ignore a lot of the mechanics of, that we're quite aware of. Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact. -- Adam Savage
  • There was a time when I believed I was the redeemed one, the boy borne safely home on the ebb of whatever freak tide carried Peter and Jamie away. Not any more. In ways too dark and crucial to be called metaphorical, I never left that wood. -- Tana French
  • Jamie: You know what I figured out today? Landon: What? Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I'm sick. To help me through all this. You're my angel. -- Nicholas Sparks
  • Oh God, Mae," said Jamie in a hollow voice, descending the stairs. "I will never drink again. I'm only seeing in black and white. My arms feel all floppy, like flightless wings. I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror and I looked like a very sad penguin. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
  • I'm sorry about your face." Jamie looked over his shoulder, and touched the demon's mark crawling along his jaw with the back of his hand. "Sorry about saving all our lives by doing something you had to do?" "Oh no," Nick said blandly. "I just meant, you know. Generally. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
  • It was something they'd done a thousand times before. If Jamie went surfing with a mate and paddled in first, he always took time for that final wave. And there was something so familiar in the ritual that for a moment he felt like everything was right.He felt forgiven. -- Kirsty Eagar
  • I moved up beside Jamie."I have to go."She frowned at me"Where?"I pressed a hand to the bottom of my belly"My bladder.It-"Ah." She gave a small laugh"We interrupt this life-or-death situation for a pregnancy pee break. Don't see that in the movies, do you? -- Kelley Armstrong
  • My phone just auto-corrected my name to "Jamie unnecessary," instead of Jamie Lynn. -- Jamie Lynn Sigler
  • if I fail as Jamie Foxx, I'll just change my name and come back as something else. -- Jamie Foxx
  • Jamie Foley - he's a very different energy to [director] Sam [Taylor-Johnson]. The whole experience was actually quite different. -- Jamie Dornan
  • But I saw Blake earlier and he said he and Nate were taking off for an overnight business thing. So..." "... you're just going to jump their fence and their pool," I finished for her. Silence. Then Jamie said, "It's twenty-five degrees! In December! Do you know what this means?" "The apocalypse? -- Sarah Dessen
  • I was 21 and had been going out with my boyfriend for two years when I found out I was pregnant - despite being told by doctors that I was sterile. Jamie's father and I hadn't discussed marriage, and to me, it wasn't something to be entered into just to stop gossip. -- Joanna Lumley
  • God has been my number one inspiration. I also look up to Will Smith and Jamie Fox who are also personal friends of mine. They give me great career advice. I would also include Chris Stokes, as a filmmaker and music producer. I've been working with him since I was eight. -- Marques Houston
  • Let me start with a confession: I don't enjoy cooking. The reason I usually do it at home is not because I'm a New Man or Jamie Oliver disciple, but because my wife's cooking is so bad. In fact, to me, cooking is less a pleasurable pastime than a defense against poisoning. -- Mark Barrowcliffe
  • Jamie Moyer was in his third year as a major league pitcher and was, by his own admission, still wide-eyed, watching everything going on around him and soaking it in. He paid particular attention to older teammates on his Chicago Cubs squad, hoping to emulate habits that had allowed those veterans to extend their careers. -- Don Yaeger
  • Jamie Dornan is one of those guys who has no idea how gorgeous he is. He's crazy in love with his girlfriend and a crazy talent and a great singer and a great actor; just a lovely, lovely human being. It kind of makes you want to throw up a bit, but in all the right ways! -- Jennifer Morrison
  • You're weird," Nick grumbled, but he turned his face back to critically examine the new hand. "You're weird," Jamie returned. "As soon as this whole magical war is over, I'm going to make us some friendship bracelets, and we will wear them everywhere because we are best friends." "Drop dead," said Nick, and Jamie looked serenely pleased. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
  • FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting. -- Zachary Knighton
  • The Martin Show,' the 'Jamie Foxx show,' 'Living Single,' 'The Wayans Brothers,' 'Hanging with Mr. Cooper...' Some of these shows were good, some were typical television, but they facilitated a lot of work for blacks in front of as well as behind the camera. A lot of us in Hollywood thought it was the beginning of a real racial breakthrough. -- John Ridley
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