James Avery Quotes
I don't understand this whole Twitter, Facebook stuff. I don't get it. Make a phone call. Talk to somebody.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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I hope to be on 'SNL' as long as they'll let me.
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I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
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I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.
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My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.
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You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.
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The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
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I love Chanel.
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I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to write songs; thankfully, I also got to sing them.
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I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.
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Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
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I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.
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Every person is worthy of an infinite wealth of love - the beauty of his soul knows no limit.
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If the songs are dreamed, it's like my voice is coming out of their dream.
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All men think all men mortal but themselves.
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Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.
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I care about writing music and playing my music.
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I wonder what my father saw in his most secret sight of the right life. It's my guess he wanted to live out his life surrounded by friends and children and fertile fields of his own designing. I tihnk he wanted to die believing he had been in one the creation of a good sweet place. Those old pilgrims believed stories in which the West was a promise, a far away place where decent people could escape the wreckage of the old world and start over. Come to me, the dream whispers, and you can have one more chance.
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Well, I do listen to God for direction, but I really don't have time to listen to other artists all that much.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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There's a vulnerability in music but you've also got to protect your sacred place and have a place you can still retire to that no one else knows about. So that's a thing I just try to balance.
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I don't understand this whole Twitter, Facebook stuff. I don't get it. Make a phone call. Talk to somebody.
