Jameen Vickers Quotes & Sayings

There is no art when one does something without intention. — Duke Ellington

A man in debt is so far a slave. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance. The only difference being that a writer can do it all alone. I was struck a few years ago when a friend of ours - an actress - was having dinner here with us and a couple of other writers. It suddenly occurred to me that she was the only person in the room who couldn't plan what she was going to do. She had to wait for someone to ask her, which is a strange way to live. — Joan Didion

In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others. — Yehuda Berg

I'm not Miley Cyrus. There may be some similarities, but I'm my own person. — Bridgit Mendler

Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms. — Rudolf Bultmann

This man, this impostor of a man, can kill my body but he can't touch my soul. — Cynthia Hand

I could never just play in a pub in front of four people because I would have had all the press turn up. That way, you don't get to build up naturally. It makes the work feel unnatural, and puts a lot of unnatural pressure on you. — Dhani Harrison