James McBride Quotes
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
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The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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It's like a painter with various layers of paint. I start with a drum loop and add keyboards, and then melodies start to take shape. The vocals happen later. I've never really done therapy before, but it's a form of therapy. Everything else falls away.
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People travel overseas to do things overseas that aren't legal in Ireland all the time. You know, are we going to stop people going to Las Vegas? Are we going to stop people going to Amsterdam? There are things that are illegal in Ireland, and we don't prevent people from travelling overseas to avail of them.
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I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.
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I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent.
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England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
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I love listening to pop radio.
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First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.
