James Marshall Quotes
It's like everyone wants to categorize you as this and that until you've made your own mark.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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Fvery time Anthony and I are supposed to fight, the lines come out, and it's like we're dead even. It's like people don't know what to make of a fight between Daniel Cormier and Anthony Johnson, when in reality, it should be very easy to know what to make of a fight between me and Anthony Johnson.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
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I love Toni Morrison and Jeanette Winterson. 'The Passion' is my favourite book.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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It's not really cool to be singled out.
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I had never been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.
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I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind me.
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I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.
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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
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When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.
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I think life is cotton candy on a rainy day. For those who grew up with cotton candy the old-fashioned way, it is very delicate. Pre-made cotton candy that has preservatives is not nearly as good or true. True cotton candy is sugar, color, and air and it melts very quickly. That was the metaphor - it can't be preserved, it can't be put aside, it can't be banked. It has to be experienced, like life.
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Before I was cast on The Surreal Life my knowledge of Christopher Knight was pretty much he was on The Brady Bunch and I hated The Brady Bunch.
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I needed to feed my family. I read a couple of the episodes. How can you keep on doing the same thing?
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All down history nine-tenths of mankind have been grinding the corn for the remaining tenth, and been paid with the husks and bidden to thank God they had the husk.
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It's like everyone wants to categorize you as this and that until you've made your own mark.
