All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.
— Jeremy Northam
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
— Jeremy Collier
I had a great career. I have no reason to complain. It's the way it goes in nature. You slow down. And I believe I lasted a lot longer than a lot of people.
— Jens Voigt
I think, from a really early age, I just wanted to be an actress. And I ended up doing comedy because it was the thing that kind of, like, came out of my nature the most easily. But, I've always wanted to do as many different kinds of performances - whatever I could.
— Jenny Slate
I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life.
— Jenny Agutter
By nature I am not tough, believe it or not.
— Jennifer Lopez
Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.
— Jennifer Connelly
The cathedral, at its noblest, is the best outward symbol of the spiritual nature of man, as it is also the most suggestive measure and prophecy of the corporate life of man.
— Jenkin Lloyd Jones
No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.
— Jen Lancaster
I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days.
— Jeffrey Jones
Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.
— Jeff Tweedy
The whole nature of war is both stupid and fascinating. It's this big game, except people die. Yet we still keep on playing it because of the big power struggles that exist all over the world. It's really amazing to me that people really do that.
— Jeff Hanneman
If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this business. We have to move on. We hopefully get opportunities down the road that we take advantage of.
— Jeff Garcia
Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.
— Jeb Bush
Receptor chemistry, the chemistry of artificial receptor molecules, may be considered a generalized coordination chemistry, not limited to transition metal ions but extending to all types of substrates: cationic, anionic or neutral species of organic, inorganic or biological nature.
— Jean-Marie Lehn
Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.
— Jean Ingelow
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
— Jean Giraudoux
There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.
— Jeremy Grantham
I have agreed to lend my voice to Nature's Guard, an animated series which hopefully will go into production in the near future. The characters are all animals. My voice will be for a character named Longtail.
— Jeremy Bulloch
The nature of design is to synthesize disparate perspectives and create a richer end product through collaboration and iteration.
— Jens Martin Skibsted
Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.
— Jenny McCarthy
I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.
— Jennifer Yuh Nelson
I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.
— Jennifer Jason Leigh
Something about being a dancer connects you to your physical body. It's primal, earthy, sexual energy by nature. You feel your body in a certain way. Channing is very much the same way. He's very in tune with that.
— Jenna Dewan
By nature, I sit alone in a room and type... My goal was never celebrity.
— Jenji Kohan
The nature of Homeland Security is that no news is good news. And no news sometimes means somebody got interdicted at the border, somebody got interdicted before they could get on an airplane, somebody was arrested providing material support to terrorism. Homeland Security means very often something you never hear about.
— Jeh Johnson
The very nature of 'UnREAL' is that we are provocative, uncensored, and brutally tactless.
— Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
Nature is the purest thing we can touch and observe. It can be the most beautiful and also the most devastating.
— Jeff Nichols
One of the turning points in the look of the Guardian is when we decided Logan Thackeray would be a Guardian as opposed to a Warrior. Logan's own protective nature and the fact that the humans have been knocked back into defensive positions informed a lot of what the Guardian became.
— Jeff Grubb
By its nature, governments and taxes are not voluntary. Government actions are violent and coercive, and theft as well.
— Jeff Berwick
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
— Jean Paul
I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
People must help one another; it is nature's law.
— Jean de La Fontaine
What I find appalling is the intrusive nature towards my extended family.
— Jeremy Corbyn
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
— Jeremy Bentham
I feel like that nature has this great power.
— Jenova Chen
When I'm sick of myself, and when I don't know what to say as a solo artist, I can write a song for a movie. When I don't know where to turn musically, being in a band - Rilo Kiley or Jenny & Johnny - the collaborative nature is really exciting.
— Jenny Lewis
There is nothing in life I would want to control. I love the way nature has given a flow to everything and would love to go with the flow.
— Jennifer Winget
Startups, by their nature, are entrepreneurial - testing new things, launching new products, and disrupting themselves. That's why you join a startup in the first place - to create, to stretch beyond your current capabilities, and to make an outsized impact.
— Jennifer Hyman
I've been trying really hard to be more domesticated. It's not in my nature to clean and cook, and so I've been really good about it.
All living things come hardwired with certain traits and characteristics that are part of our nature, meaning that these things come naturally to us: they're what we're meant to do, and they're how universal intelligence flows though us best. Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim, etc.
— Jen Sincero
Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.
— Jeffrey Katzenberg
I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.
What Richard and Mildred Loving did was, by their nature, not by any calculus, they separated themselves from the political conversation. They did not have an agenda. They did not want to be martyrs. They did not want to be symbols of a movement.
This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.
— Jeff Greenfield
Unless you're a vegan freak of nature like Tony Gonzalez, I don't think you can play sports much past your early 30s.
— Jeff Ament
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
