James McBride Quotes
A lot of mixed-race stories are these navel-gazing, horrible accounts of mulatto tragedy.
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Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.
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Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.
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I believe that first impressions are very important.
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I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change.
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I do love that witches haven't really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
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I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.' I decided I would do all the things they did on that show.
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One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
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Disneyland is a show.
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You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
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What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.
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I have, indeed, lived most of my life overseas, but I've returned repeatedly to work in film, special television productions, and the New York theater. There have also been tributes and similar occasions that have called me back to Hollywood. I've returned so often, I almost feel that I've never left.
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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I trained myself, whenever I walk into auditions, to hate everyone in the room.
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Fame gives you a high.
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I could never be lonely without a husband, but without my trinkets, my golden gods, I could find abysmal gloom.
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If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.
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I expect there will be more private schools.
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When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves--that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience.
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I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.
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A lot of mixed-race stories are these navel-gazing, horrible accounts of mulatto tragedy.
