James Blaylock Quotes
You'd think it would be easier for writers to make a living, but it's not. Fortunately, I love to teach.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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I always wanted to be an ambassador.
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Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.
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My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.
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I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.
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When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.
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I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.
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Teaching was my first job after leaving university. It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it. Some of the kids were disruptive, but I could deal with it because I was only 24 at the time, and my own school memories were still fresh.
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I never believe in going to America with my show reel and knocking on every agent's door. I couldn't even do it. I'm way too insecure and too proud.
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There's nothing anyone can do about Tiger Woods but look at his game and swoon.
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As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.
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Nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face. So what they are going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know he - oh, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all of those other presidents on those dollar bills.
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Todo o homem que merece ser célebre sabe que não vale a pena sê-lo.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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To me, anything goes. But that's me.
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Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.
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Caelesti sumus omnes semine oriundi.
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You need to dismount when your horse is dead. What was relevant 20 years ago is no longer relevant today. Therefore, you need to reinvent yourself.
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Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.
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I have certain things that I stand for, certain things that I believe in, and if you don't like it and you tell me to go to hell, I think that's your God-given right as a fan. It's one of those deals where I'm that one guy who is outside of that realm of good guy, bad guy. I'm just me, and it elicits a response both positive and negative.
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As you know, divorce is still not allowed in the Catholic Church. But here insert a large 'however' - she is liberal in the granting of annulments.
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You'd think it would be easier for writers to make a living, but it's not. Fortunately, I love to teach.
