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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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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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
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I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.
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Together, we will protect the sanctity of life, ensuring early next Congress that no federal funds are used for abortion.
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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.
