Marlon James Quotes
What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings.
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Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.
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Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides.
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I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.
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The finest lesson I've learned with age is that all I need is a small team of comrades who inspire me, try not to judge me, and remind me when I'm judging myself.
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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.
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They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
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I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.
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Roy Keane and Paul Scholes were unbelievable players. You cannot compare yourself to them. It is impossible. Scholes especially, I like him a lot, and I have a lot of respect for what he did for United.
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What makes you a good citizen makes you a good Christian... Obey the law of your land by not crossing the borders of your nation with Ebola virus.
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There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.
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I cannot change anything, so I don't want to think about what I would have done.
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The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
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Young he was not, so that one had to call him old, but the word did not suit him.
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A man´s taste is formed more by his culture, his profession, and the period in which he is young than by his race or politics.
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In L.A., I was a talent manager for many years. I represented many African-American actors. After a while, I became disheartened over the shortage of roles for African Americans.
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Walk into a room, knowing you are somebody, somebody special. Don't ever let them smash that or pull you down.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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Gwen and I have four children and ten grandchildren.
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With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!
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What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings.
