James Allen Quotes
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.
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Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.
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If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
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One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.
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We'd accept Germany either allowing all migrants in or not allowing any in. But whatever Germany decides should only apply to Germany.
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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
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A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.
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The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
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I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.
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In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You may have a free-standing bookshelf of your favorite books if that's all you have room for.
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I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.
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I have two younger brothers, and we're very close in age.
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Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.
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Ildefonse said ponderously: 'If your analysis is correct, we must undertake to secure the future against this pangynic nightmare.'
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There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.
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Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
