Shades Of Grey Quotes

• During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

  John le Carre

  War, Literature, Shade

  "John le Carré at the NFT". Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.

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• Just think how many books I could've sold if Harry had been a bit more creative with his wand." -[On the success of 50 Shades of Grey]

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Thinking, Creative

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• I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.

  Brian Molko

  Believe, Black And White, Desire

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• Never trust a man who can dance.

  E. L. James

  Men, Fifty, Shade

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• My inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves.

  John Green

  Moving, Fifty, Shade

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• There is a very fine line between love and nausea.

  James Earl Jones

  Greed, Nausea, Lines

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• There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.

  E. L. James

  Pain, Two Sides, Coins

  E L James (2017). “Fifty Shades from Christian’s Point of View: Includes Grey and Darker”, p.195, Random House

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• Men aren't really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said, when really it's obvious.

  E. L. James

  Mean, Simple, Men

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• Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.

  E. L. James

  Hero, Long, Expectations

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• The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Confidence, Men

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• There is a very fine line between listening and stalking.

  Jay Baer

  Greed, Listening, Nausea

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• I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Peace, Military

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.152, Best Books on

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• I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Years, White, Black

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• Fifty Shades Of Grey proved you can write about a dude choking women and shoving stuff up their butts but heaven forbid if you tell a legitimate joke about it. Sure I doubled the number of feminists who hate me, but I also doubled the number of shows I have on TV. No regrets.

  Daniel Tosh

  Regret, Hate, Writing

  "Tosh.0 - Season Four" by Kevin McFarland, www.avclub.com. December 05, 2012.

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• I think love keeps on changing every day.
  It’s not black and white and it’s definitely more than 50 shades of grey.

  Ville Valo

  Black And White, Thinking, Shade

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• No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.

  Anthony Lane

  Writing, Firsts, Fifty

  "No Pain, No Gain" by Anthony Lane, www.newyorker.com. February 23 & March 2, 2015.

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• I do not look at the world in terms of black and white - and I find people who do rather scary. I think it's all shades of grey.

  E. L. James

  Black And White, Thinking, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Shades of Grey. I haven't read it yet, but what you have to read carefully, is “Story of O” by the French writer Dominique Aury. This is actually the forerunner of all the whole SM novels and it's really good. You have to read it.

  Theo Hutchcraft

  Sms, Stories, Shade

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• Some people will like it [Fifty Shades of Grey] and some won't. I have other movies coming up, this is not what my whole life turns around.

  Dakota Johnson

  People, Fifty, Shade

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• I'll start by saying that "Fifty Shades of Grey:" It's like I don't have. an elicit confused relationship to my sexuality. So I don't need a book like that.

  Lena Dunham

  Confused, Book, Needs

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it?

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Thinking, Fifty

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• I turn my girl on like fifty shades of grey.

  Drew Chadwick

  Girl, Fifty, Shade

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• I know because the movie's made a lot of money, everyone's relaxed a bit so there wasn't that pressure to set the tone for the movies [Fifty Shades of Grey] so I felt a little more freedom this time and it probably made it more enjoyable.

  Jamie Dornan

  Fifty, Littles, Shade

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I think it's common sense to shy away from the erotic. Perhaps this grand experiment, which started with Lady Chatterley's Lover, of seeing what you can write and how you can write about sex, has reached a certain weary terminus with Fifty Shades of Grey.

  Richard Flanagan

  Sex, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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