James Forman, Jr. Quotes
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
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'The Lunchbox' is the kind of cinema that is true to its word and not cluttered or corrupted by some of the mainstream pre-requisites. I love the way I make movies, but there are certain stories that need to be told in a certain way, and 'The Lunchbox' is that movie, and I'm so proud to present this movie.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
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Love is a great emotion, but I believe it's not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships.
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If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
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If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.
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I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
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Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
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I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.
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I like to balance competing with studying. It's hard work at the moment, but it could be worse.
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If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
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This might sound masochistic or narcissistic, I don't know, but when I'm not playing the game, the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness, in a lot of ways, when I'm not playing.
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
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May the countenance of Prydain be bright for my guidance. Sovereign of heaven, let my messages not be rejected.
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I despise shopping and department stores.
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Art is not only about angst.
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Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.
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I made a decision that I wanted to do five years of classical theatre before I did anything else, which was a very unfashionable thing to do.
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While mass incarceration is a national crisis, it was built locally.
