James McBride Quotes

A lot of mixed-race stories are these navel-gazing, horrible accounts of mulatto tragedy.

James McBride

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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.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Want
  • Rest
  • Environment

• Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Kids
  • Learn
  • Students

• I believe that first impressions are very important.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Believe
  • Important

• I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Power
  • Laughter
  • Horror

• When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.

  

  J Mascis
  • Play
  • Enough
  • Moment

• Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Stress

• You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Change
  • Yourself
  • Paths

• 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.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Character
  • Female
  • Witches

• I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.' I decided I would do all the things they did on that show.

  

  Vanessa Ray
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Inspiration
  • Hero
  • Flamingo

• Disneyland is a show.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Show
  • Disneyland

• 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.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Heart
  • Eyes
  • Movies

• What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Real
  • Struggle

• 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.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Life
  • Work
  • New York

• A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Nature
  • Words
  • Kiss

• I trained myself, whenever I walk into auditions, to hate everyone in the room.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Hate
  • Myself
  • Walk

• Fame gives you a high.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • High
  • You
  • Fame

• One of the wonderful things about wrestling, to me, is that you can protect people who have had head injuries.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Me
  • Wrestling

• You create identity, you're not given identity per se. What became more interesting to me wasn't the I, it was text because it's texts that create the identity. That's how I got interested in plagiarism.

  

  Kathy Acker
  • Interesting
  • Identity
  • Text

• I have three brothers and one sister, and I'm the third child. Sometimes people say, 'It's only natural you would become a writer - your parents were English professors.' But my four siblings were brought up in the exact same household, and no one else became a writer or an English professor.

  

  Antonya Nelson
  • People
  • Up
  • Parents

• I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • People

• I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.

  

  Beverly Cleary
  • Writing

• Heroes inspire us for many reasons: they make tough decisions, they keep going and they get done what matters. But there’s another reason we love our heroes. Inside us all, we know we have the power to become one ourselves.

  

  Oliver Emberton
  • Done
  • Power

• A lot of mixed-race stories are these navel-gazing, horrible accounts of mulatto tragedy.

  

  James McBride