James Carville Quotes
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
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All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
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We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.
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I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
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I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.
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What we aim to do, through public pressure, is help the environment protection bureau to enforce the law.
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You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.
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Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.
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I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.
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I recognise a lot of myself in these kids who enter shows like Pop Idol. It's very hard to get into the music industry and you have to take every opportunity that you can. Something like Pop Idol is a great opportunity but unfortunately, I think it's tainted by the people that make these shows.
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Everybody needs a little light in their life, and when they need prayer, they know where to come, because they know I love them all, and I ain't judging nobody.
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I've spent a lifetime in love with country music.
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Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find.
