James Carville Quotes
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
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Part of why history is so important in my life is because it brings you an awareness that everything isn't new. It gives context to what's happening right now. History is cyclical but circumstances and technology change. So when social justice topics come up, they're not new. They're just being covered more. We have more ways to record it now.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.
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It wasn't that I mistrusted the Seth personality, but I felt it was a personification of something else - and that 'something else' wasn't a person in our terms. It was, I felt, a consciousness different from mine, but to call Seth a spirit guide, meaning a nonphysical person in usual terms, just didn't fit to me.
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We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.
