James Broughton Quotes
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
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I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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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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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
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Yes, I am very prolific.
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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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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 believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.
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I love to be surprised.
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When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
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One of the most persistent images in American urbanism is that of the proverbial city on a hill, as first envisioned on these shores by the Puritan John Winthrop, via the Gospel according to Saint Matthew.
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn't, but I thought: 'What the hell?' So I went to an open mic night, and I liked it.
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America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.
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The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
