James Branch Cabell Quotes
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'
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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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I do believe that banks are special - they are very leveraged institutions by nature; therefore, it's even more critical to ensure that the governance and the process of running a banking company are well-organised, managed and regulated.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
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As a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like doesn't matter, what it smells like doesn't matter, as long as Christ is there it will be Heaven to me.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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I'm not afraid to speak out, and say things that I want to do, or do the things that I want to do, so um, I think in the end, being natural, and being, being actually genuine is what wins.
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
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What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.
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Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does.
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I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
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Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams.
