James Agee Quotes
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I fed my ego, but not my soul.
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Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.
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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
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The biggest thing is to have a mind-set and a belief you can win every tournament going in.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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I am a gift of joy that God gives to a wonderful world.
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Personally, I believe that government, rather than money, tends to be the primary factor limiting the development of new technologies.
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God doesn't believe in the easy way.
