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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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
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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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One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.
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Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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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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Teachers need to be paid like professionals.
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Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
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I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to pigeonhole people, and there's nothing an actor loves more than to do something different.
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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.
