James Lovegrove Quotes
My appearance on 'Public School' garnered a smattering of fan mail from girls, which was good, and letters from mothers saying I was the sort of boy they'd like their daughters to go out with - which was not quite as good.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.
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I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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I could never leave Las Vegas. I can't really afford New York or Los Angeles. I love this town. We don't have that much. We have the Runnin' Rebels and boxer Floyd Mayweather. When Mayweather fights, it's good for the whole city. It's like the Super Bowl out here.
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quoted in American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good (2015)
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For me, when I read a book, I'm very much about detail.
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Peace is obtained by war.
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I always got great respect as a bass player.
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My appearance on 'Public School' garnered a smattering of fan mail from girls, which was good, and letters from mothers saying I was the sort of boy they'd like their daughters to go out with - which was not quite as good.
