James McBride Quotes
My goal is to be able to fill out one of those forms that asks 'Who are you?' and be able to just put 'Human being,' you know?
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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.
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I'll tell you something, and this is true: I've never been able to write a film which I didn't respect. I just can't do it. I'm very happy about all the films I haven't done.
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Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.
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But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.
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Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.
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Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.
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Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
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Where I'm from, there is no violence, pretty much.
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Most of my confidence came from being with ladies, because I certainly wasn't getting any acting jobs.
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Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
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Most of us get our history through story.
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This is a righteous judgement of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood.
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Of several luminous bodies of equal size and brilliancy and at an equal distance, that will look the largest which is surrounded by the darkest background.
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But for those that are equal to have an unequal share and those that are alike an unlike share is contrary to nature, and nothing contrary to nature is noble.
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For those of us whose thoughts digress; for whom unexpected juxtapositions are exhilarating rather than tiresome; who aim, if always inadequately, to convey life's experience in some semblance of its complexity - for such writers, the semi-colon is invaluable.
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I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.
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Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something.
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My goal is to be able to fill out one of those forms that asks 'Who are you?' and be able to just put 'Human being,' you know?
