James Branch Cabell Quotes
Before 1914 had well begun to make the world safe for hypocrisy, these stories had blended into one continuous and fairly long Comedy of Evasion, called then In the Flesh, but a little later rechristened The Cream of The Jest...
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Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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Sometimes words are harder than blows.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I was lucky, and my parents were amazingly literate and helpful.
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You forget all of it anyway. . . You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. . . You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They’re the last to go. And then once you’ve forgotten enough, you love someone else.
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If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands.
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I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
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The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
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Before 1914 had well begun to make the world safe for hypocrisy, these stories had blended into one continuous and fairly long Comedy of Evasion, called then In the Flesh, but a little later rechristened The Cream of The Jest...
