James Broughton Quotes
I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.
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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.
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I remember being in college knowing I didn't want to go anymore. I wanted to try and become an actor. There is a something in me, with a risk of sounding cliche, that I just had to do it. I knew from an early age that acting was my path.
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Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.
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Writing to you like this makes me feel that you are still alive. It’s an illusion I’ve noticed before—words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It lasts only while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or the pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.
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I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.
