Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
JAMES DEAN
JAMES DEAN
More from James Dean
An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
James DeanJames Dean Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
James DeanJames Dean If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
James DeanJames Dean You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one’s watching. Love as if it’s all you know. Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
James DeanJames Dean Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.
James DeanJames Dean To me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
James DeanJames Dean Racing is the only time I feel whole.
James DeanJames Dean In the short span of his lifetime, an actor must learn all there is to know, experience all there is to experience, or approach that state as closely as possible.
James DeanJames Dean What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
James DeanJames Dean There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
James DeanJames Dean It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics.
James DeanJames Dean Am I in love? Absolutely. I’m in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I’m a passionate lover.
James DeanJames Dean I’m a serious-minded and intense little devil – terribly gauche and so tense that I don’t see how people can stay in the same room as me. I know I couldn’t tolerate myself.
James DeanJames Dean A good boy, and I’m very proud of him. Not easy to understand, no sir. He’s not easy to understand. But he’s all man, and he’ll make his mark.
James DeanJames Dean You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You’ve got to do things and not show them.
James DeanJames Dean I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
James DeanJames Dean
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Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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More on driving
I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend’s driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.
Black FrancisBlack Francis All the stories have to do with emotion. Emotion is driving everything.
Bill HaderBill Hader You think you’re going to Toledo but you’re actually going to Miami and you might not have enough gas so you might need to buy gas from someone who might take you out if you aren’t driving well
Ben SilbermannBen Silbermann Composing is like driving down a foggy road.
Benjamin BrittenBenjamin Britten People have always been telling me what I can’t do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That’s been one of my driving forces all my life.
Ben HoganBen Hogan If you’re driving down the street, you keep the neck forward. So that way you can clear out the lanes.
Baron VaughnBaron Vaughn Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
Barbara KingsolverBarbara Kingsolver When you get out of the driver’s seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver’s seat, it can drive itself so much easier-it can flow in ways you never imagined.
AdyashantiAdyashanti