James McBride Quotes
James Brown's music still sounds as fresh and as good and as new as it did when he first created it.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.
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I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
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A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.
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Sunday is a day of rest. Loafing is not rest.
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Making music is an emotional thing. And when you're on a video shoot with 50 people there, you have to somehow, in a non-emotional way, say what you want and not feel guilty for it. And that takes growing up and that takes... not caring how people perceive you as much. And it just takes experience, I think.
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I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves.
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It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.
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James Brown's music still sounds as fresh and as good and as new as it did when he first created it.
