This is a lifelong passion of mine.
ALLYNNE JONES Spring is definitely our biggest time.
ALLYNNE JONES I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be up ...
FELICITY JONES Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poet...
QUINCY JONES It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows...
SHIRLEY JONES I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical natur...
JEFFREY JONES I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they ...
GEORGE JONES I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
TAYARI JONES Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
TAYARI JONES Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
TAYARI JONES My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the c...
TAYARI JONES I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I star...
TAYARI JONES I do have a sister - I have two sisters.
TAYARI JONES When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an e...
TAYARI JONES I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.
TAYARI JONES I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.
TAYARI JONES I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, whe...
TAYARI JONES When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catc...
TAYARI JONES I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field o...
TAYARI JONES I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 ho...
TAMALA JONES I love Yves Saint Laurent. I love Chanel. And Versace! Such beautiful gowns!
TAMALA JONES I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
TAMALA JONES The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done.
TAMALA JONES I definitely love 'Camelot.' It's my favorite show. I'm a big 'True Blood' f...
TAMALA JONES I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around b...
TAMALA JONES People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my J...
TAMALA JONES I hid the fact that I had an aneurysm for a very long time. I was embarrassed, and I just felt like ...
TAMALA JONES I can go into a restaurant; I might have to go a few times, taste something, love it and figure out ...
TAMALA JONES I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
TAMALA JONES I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
TAMALA JONES For me, to do a reality show is like sending myself to actor's graveyard. I feel like I should w...
TAMALA JONES I'm a little goofy sometimes; I can get a little wacky.
TAMALA JONES I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the res...
DAVY JONES You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't b...
VAN JONES Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin...
VAN JONES I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explai...
VAN JONES I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
JACK JONES I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get...
JACK JONES Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
JACK JONES I particularly like Hershey's chocolate, the kind which has almonds in it.
JACK JONES When people say to me, 'What do you think of rap music?', my answer is, 'There's no ...
JACK JONES I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
GRACE JONES I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.
TOM JONES Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
CHUCK JONES I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through he...
DHANI JONES I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to le...
GRACE JONES I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress...
GRACE JONES I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
ORLANDO JONES Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a persona...
ORLANDO JONES Belly was not a bad movie. It was visually very interesting.
ORLANDO JONES I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making...
ORLANDO JONES That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero,...
ORLANDO JONES Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are ...
ORLANDO JONES You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that's t...
ORLANDO JONES You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
QUINCY JONES I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just c...
QUINCY JONES I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that ...
QUINCY JONES It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.
QUINCY JONES I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the m...
QUINCY JONES If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
QUINCY JONES I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute...
QUINCY JONES I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of...
QUINCY JONES Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white p...
QUINCY JONES We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probab...
QUINCY JONES I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her be...
QUINCY JONES Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it&#...
QUINCY JONES A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top ...
QUINCY JONES Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
QUINCY JONES I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.
QUINCY JONES I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No ...
QUINCY JONES I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long t...
QUINCY JONES You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
QUINCY JONES I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of al...
QUINCY JONES I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed,...
QUINCY JONES Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
QUINCY JONES Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.
LESLIE JONES In 'Hell Ride,' I play a biker - it's about the bikers. It's with Dennis Hopper and ...
VINNIE JONES It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict...
GRACE JONES I like men. I like the sound of their voices, the way they think. They're more sensitive than wo...
CAROLYN JONES I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.
CHUCK JONES The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.
DAVY JONES You wouldn't want to see the size of the check that I would write if it would for sure get the D...
JERRY JONES The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young...
KELLY JONES When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you. Your posture is a little more erect; your shoulders are...
DHANI JONES I think we're very lucky that there is a tradition of British actors working in America and bein...
FELICITY JONES The good, old-fashioned family can help. Students learn by example, and if their parents, aunts, unc...
AL JONES That's a worry, because we have seen the intensity of students playing video games, watching TV more...
AL JONES It's the personal, intimate nature of books. It's hard to curl up with a computer.
AL JONES Somebody must have run a red light, I'm thinking that's the Honda based on preliminary reports.
AL JONES He was kind of the old-style beat cop. He took care of his area; he really felt responsible for his ...
AL JONES We talked in the locker room about how we've improved so much. That's what you want a young group to...
AL JONES We dug ourselves a hole pretty deep and just couldn't get back out of it. We didn't score a field go...
AL JONES When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the mu...
ADAM JONES In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little ...
ADAM JONES I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
ADAM JONES Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.
ADAM JONES I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
ADAM JONES I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes...
ADAM JONES I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
ADAM JONES I'm not a good guitar player.
ADAM JONES If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.
ADAM JONES Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
ADAM JONES My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
ADAM JONES That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid st...
ADAM JONES We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that i...
ADAM JONES With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
ADAM JONES I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and th...
ADAM JONES I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
ADAM JONES That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
ADAM JONES We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.
ADAM JONES I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
ADAM JONES I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.
ADAM JONES I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand...
ADAM JONES Fine art is really something I want to get into.
ADAM JONES I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
ADAM JONES Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, ...
ADAM JONES As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
ADAM JONES I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
ADAM JONES The great privilege it has been to work with some of the most talented people on the face of the ear...
DEAN JONES Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you...
QUINCY JONES I listen to a lot of Christian music, and reading my Bible calms me down immensely.
LOLO JONES Film directing is really undermined if you attempt to do it by committee because there has to be a s...
DUNCAN JONES My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It...
VINNIE JONES When it's the caliber of fight that Canelo Alvarez and Liam Smith is, that's a big deal, and...
JERRY JONES After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at sch...
SHIRLEY JONES I've perfected the art of busting on people. That's how comedians show each other love.
LESLIE JONES I can tell you, I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great par...
JERRY JONES I would doubt, if you call the governor, that he would supply to you his correspondence with his chi...
ALAN JONES I think most any legislator would probably be most happy to talk to anyone about their draft legisla...
ALAN JONES We have been trying to secure Ryan's services for quite a while now but, due to other commitments, h...
ALAN JONES KP would have loved that.
ALAN JONES He stood for something they loved. They admired the swagger about him.
ALAN JONES The innings were too short, but there were a lot of runs.
ALAN JONES Two years ago, I kept all the tires we replaced from potholes in one week and there was a pile of ab...
ALAN JONES I think everybody who's on that task force is there because they have concerns about that proposal.
ALAN JONES Both Christian and Will displayed a great deal of maturity in getting the setup right on the car.
ALAN JONES It's quite unfortunate Will had the crash on his third lap this morning, however the pleasing aspect...
ALAN JONES If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a p...
FELICITY JONES I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.
FELICITY JONES The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come ...
FELICITY JONES I think you're attracted to things that are different from yourself in a character because it...
FELICITY JONES My grandmother has dementia, and my mother is looking after her as her primary caregiver. Seeing the...
FELICITY JONES I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I lo...
FELICITY JONES I actually always had short hair as a kid, and it's really liberating. I recommend it. It's ...
FELICITY JONES My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for...
FELICITY JONES A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it...
FELICITY JONES But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you r...
FELICITY JONES It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend ...
FELICITY JONES I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally tale...
FELICITY JONES I've never done this level of physical preparation for something. Particularly for 'Rogue On...
FELICITY JONES I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
FELICITY JONES I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my ...
FELICITY JONES Day to day, I always wear eyeliner on my top lid and mascara. I like to do my own makeup, it depends...
FELICITY JONES Interviewing someone is very similar to preparing a character, isn't it? You're just asking ...
FELICITY JONES It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go...
FELICITY JONES I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. ...
FELICITY JONES It's funny how seeing a love story never gets boring, because it's the dream, isn't it? ...
FELICITY JONES I make all my decisions by listening to my instinct and then keeping my fingers crossed it will lead...
FELICITY JONES You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a ...
FELICITY JONES There's so much of a desire in the entertainment industry for newness, a desire to build somebod...
FELICITY JONES It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back ...
FELICITY JONES I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
FELICITY JONES Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two ...
FINN JONES I do feel like the media is one of the biggest problems. If you look at all these rolling news chann...
FINN JONES 'Thrones' would be the perfect platform to send a progressive message because right now, our...
FINN JONES I've had this theory for a while, but I think there needs to be a message with the end of 'G...
FINN JONES When I was in drama school, I really got into a dark place. I went to a therapist - it was really he...
FINN JONES New York has a deep culture of house and dance music, and to be able to tap into that is my way of s...
FINN JONES A lot of the vibe in London is being sucked dry because of the economic situation. It's very exp...
FINN JONES I've always been a bit of a lost soul, and I think that goes back to me being adopted and not kn...
FINN JONES I'm a big fan of 'Akira,' and I think comics are a great place to tell intelligent, fant...
FINN JONES I get that people want more diversity in TV and film, and I stand by that. I stand in solidarity wit...
FINN JONES I've always been interested in mindfulness and alternative ways of seeing the world.
FINN JONES I worked on 'Game Of Thrones' for six years, so I'm very well equipped to handle hype su...
FINN JONES I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up ...
FINN JONES About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since ...
FINN JONES For me as an actor, I find it's most creative when I'm bringing myself into the role rather ...
FINN JONES At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the ci...
FINN JONES My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a p...
FINN JONES I know feeling pressure gets you nowhere creatively. You've just got to understand the character...
FINN JONES I find the comic book audience a lot more intense than the fantasy one, definitely.
FINN JONES I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're...
FINN JONES I was never a troublemaker, but I also was never a nerdy kid. I was never a cool kid or a sports kid...
FINN JONES I'm a huge advocate for human rights and cultural rights. I stand up for minorities and will alw...
FINN JONES I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to...
FINN JONES There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy fl...
FINN JONES The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an olig...
FINN JONES Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that real...
FINN JONES I have to work with the team at Blizzard and the producers on the film and convince them that, as a ...
DUNCAN JONES One of the things I think is unique and signature about Blizzard is that whenever they do their game...
DUNCAN JONES Human beings should stick together. Honestly, if I see a red-haired person with blue eyes now, I say...
GRACE JONES Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, i...
MOTHER JONES When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding tha...
DHANI JONES I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes,...
RASHIDA JONES You should go order a sweet roll. Those are to die for. And a carne adovada burrito."
DARYNDA JONES When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in ...
QUINCY JONES Bow-Chick-A-Wow-Wow!
JUSTIN JONES I started paying into the local pension when I was 19. At that time, you take the advice of the gove...
ADRIAN JONES We have received more requests from the public to immortalize Tupac than any other rap star. It is f...
ADRIAN JONES It's a big difference between being a starter and a backup. You have to watch more film and be more ...
ADRIAN JONES