James Branch Cabell Quotes
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.
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I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
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I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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'We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.'
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When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.
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News isn't designed to talk about daily life in its nuances, but poetry is.
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Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
