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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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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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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A lot of the greatest artists, their work is always about life and the world. I think there needs to be that for video games.
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Free speech is a valuable commodity, which we preserve and protect, but there quite rightly is restriction on free speech in the best interest of the good order of the community and common sense.
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Prediction is a mug's game, but taking the side of water polluters has not been a winning political strategy for 50 years. Presidents Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II all undertook to weaken water regulations in the name of economic growth. They left office; the regulations remained.
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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.
