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 am past thirty, and three parts iced over.
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Food is so heavily connected to memory.
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I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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The people run the country. So if people didn't want you shooting in their neighborhood, there's no authority that can tell them they have to. That's why it's called the People's Republic of China.
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It's like everyone wants to categorize you as this and that until you've made your own mark.
