James Bovard Quotes
I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I haven't fallen that much, but when I have, it's usually in the attempt to do something worthwhile. As for recovery, you just have to get up!
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984.
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It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.
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I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
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While I feel it's important for films to examine our society, I don't particularly like watching the films that do it.
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Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
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I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or actors or actresses, so they're very limited in what they can do.
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It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.
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I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.
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The high esteem in which the Nobel Prizes are held is undoubtedly due to the conscientious way in which the Committees have discharged a heavy responsibility.
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Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
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But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That's the biggest difference.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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Journalism is a good place for any writer to start - the retailing of fact is always a useful trade and can it help you learn to appreciate the declarative sentence. A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.
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I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it.
