James McBride Quotes
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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I've done it all.
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Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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I'm the type of guy who likes to be there 24-7. I'm Mr. Roses.
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Est deus in nobis; agitante calescimus illo:impetus hic sacrae semina mentis habet.
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I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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The best thing Clinton could do - I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure - is to shut up.... He has no discipline.
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..paint was always in history of painting a means to an end, whether the end was religious, social, decorative or romantic. Now it's become an end in itself..
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No way that any astronaut worth his salt volunteered for the space program to become a hero. You don't select astronauts who want fame and fortune. You select them because they're the best test pilots in the world, they know it, and it's a personal challenge for them. And the astronauts of today are exactly the same.
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I get offered so many bad movies. And they're all raging queens or transvestites or Martians.
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HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.
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I want to offer plus-size women the opportunity to wear fun colors and to avoid the pitfalls of only wearing black because many curvy girls think it is the only color that is slimming.
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I've just always had a soft spot for character actors.
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You can be, like, a totally different person on camera, and it's fun. You can take on another character, and it's awesome.
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VW has held a beloved place in American culture. When I graduated from college, many of my friends drove across the country, and most hit the road in a VW van or Bug. Through the years, these cars have represented youth, freedom and quirkiness.
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As I've said many times and publicly, a war between China and Taiwan that involves the United States is a lose-lose-lose.
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America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.
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A typewriter forces you to keep going, to march forward.
