James McBride Quotes
You have to be able to toss the thing out. You can't fall in love with your characters, and you have to know when to fight - and when to quit.
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To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
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This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
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Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.
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It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.
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I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.
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I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.
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The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.
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Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.
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If there's one thing any mom should have for fall, it's a peplum top.
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
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When I returned to the United States after three years of World War II service, my total assets consisted of one wife, one small daughter, $276 in the bank, and an idea. The idea was for an export business to supply items badly needed everywhere in Europe.
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I came up during the 'Star Wars' generation and that was sort of the thing I plugged into much more. It was a little before my time and I think it was sort of grappling with these intellectual ideas that were a little advanced for my young mind. At the time. But now I have a much deeper appreciation for it.
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I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.
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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
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I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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The idea is to become an old wizard; to live a long and fruitful life and have family and be healthy and enjoy the ride. And speaking of the ride, why not let it rip, at least a little bit? Everyone I know who's really stoked about getting out of bed in the morning does that to some extent.
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You have to be able to toss the thing out. You can't fall in love with your characters, and you have to know when to fight - and when to quit.
