James A. Michener Quotes

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

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• I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.

  

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• When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.

  

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• Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

  

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• When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  

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• I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!

  

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• Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.

  

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• We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

  

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• I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

  

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• I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.

  

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• Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.

  

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• Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.

  

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• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

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• I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.

  

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• I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.

  

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• It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.

  

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• The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

  

  James A. Michener
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience