James McBride Quotes
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I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
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I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
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There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.
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I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.
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We have morons representing us. People who go up and vote for a bill that they have never read - I mean, are we crazy? Are we insane to hand over our government to those kinds of people?
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People tend to think they know you when you come into their televisions every week. They think you are different than who you are. Don't believe everything you hear.
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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
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I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.
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Music and fashion are a sign of the times and a reflection of what people want and need at this very day and age.
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We put people at the center of everything we do.
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People have been playing versions of 'World of Warcraft' since 1994, and it's still the world's leading subscription-based MMO.
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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To say the Internet is the death of books and movies is like saying someone invented a new, more efficient kind of cup and it heralds the death of coffee - a new improved form of carrying something, which is essentially what the Internet is, should be helpful to our business.
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A lot of people are not interested in stories in which they don't see themselves.
