James Lee Burke Quotes

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

James Lee Burke

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• I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Like
  • Priorities
  • Remembered

• I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Want
  • Actress
  • Only

• I'm competitive. I don't like to lose.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Like
  • Lose
  • Competitive

• I no longer limit myself.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Myself
  • Limit
  • Longer

• Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Childhood
  • Memories
  • Early

• When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Magic

• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Political
  • Spiritual
  • Islam

• That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Good
  • Why
  • Door

• It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Act
  • Would
  • Judicious

• The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.

  

  Aberjhani
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I'm very bad at ending sentences. A lot times I just want to say, 'That's the end of my sentence. I have nothing more to say.'

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Bad
  • Want
  • End

• We have international standards regulating everything from t-shirts to toys to tomatoes. There are international regulations for furniture. That means there are common standards for the global trade in armchairs but not the global trade in arms.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Everything
  • Furniture
  • Toys

• The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Up
  • Things
  • Process

• If I find myself just not feeling like writing songs anymore, I think I'll drop it. There's enough bad, insincere music out there. I don't need to contribute to that.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Bad

• Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Pretty
  • Nice
  • Finding

• It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Me
  • Baseball
  • Down

• I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.

  

  Barry Watson
  • Up
  • Different
  • Long

• As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Faith

• Life is an energy field, a bunch of molecules. And these particular molecules formed to make these four guys, who then formed into this band called the Beatles and did all that work. I have to think that was something metaphysical. Something alchemic. Something that must be thought of as magic.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• To me, I took a militant attitude towards sounds. I wanted sounds to be a metaphor, that they could be as free as a human being might be free. That was my idea about sound. It still is, that they should breathe ... not to be used for the vested interest of an idea. I feel that music should have no vested interests, that you shouldn't know how it's made, that you shouldn't know if there's a system, that you shouldn't know anything about it ... except that it's some kind of life force that to some degree really changes your life ... if you're into it.

  

  Morton Feldman
  • Attitude
  • Should
  • Breathe

• The 'Lone Star' experience was tough at the time, but it really allowed me to look at things from a 3,000-foot high view. You can think something is the greatest thing in the world, but, as we know, anything can happen. It really taught me that I always want to make choices that I believe in artistically. No one can take that away from you.

  

  James Wolk
  • Time
  • World
  • Believe

• I just think of myself as a comedian, really.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Comedian

• If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice.

  

  Domenica Costa
  • Trying
  • Moving
  • Choices

• Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

  

  James Lee Burke