James Carville Quotes
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.
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Manouri is a Greek ewes' milk cheese that's light in colour and texture. It's fresh and milky, and goes well with other subtle flavours.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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My theme song is 'One Tin Soldier' by Coven.
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When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.
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In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.
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Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.
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People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances.
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I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.
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Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.
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There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree.
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Who God is and what it is to be divine is something we have to learn where God has revealed Himself and His nature, the essence of the divine.
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To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the richest, intensest blue that I can contrive, and by this simple combination of the bright head against the rich blue background, I get a mysterious effect, like a star in the depths of an azure sky.
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The only real and reliable guarantee for khadi would be honesty, truthfulness and sincerity of khadi workers.
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With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god of the country, feared and loved the Mississippi.
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The first year I moved to Nashville, I started playing these songwriter nights with people like Nickel Creek, Duncan Sheik, and even Ryan Adams... That was the first place I really started playing music, and I had to really step up my game. Really quick. Or get kicked off the stage.
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By the time I was a sophomore in high school, it had become routine for me to be sent home for wearing dresses. My mere presence in a skirt became an act of protest that would get me called out of class and into the vice principal's office.
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But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.
