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've just always had a soft spot for character actors.
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I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
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When I stand up from my writing desk, 'John Banville', or 'Benjamin Black' – that is, the one whose name will appear on the title page – vanishes on the instant, since he only existed while the writing was being done.
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Barbados: 'A proper bum island this Barbados....It's a unique sort of scenery, very ugly, & I didn't take much to the coloured population, who are revolting.' (26-27 March 1920)
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No two beings, and no two situations, are really commensurable with each other. To become aware of this fact is to undergo a sort of crisis. But it is with this crisis in our moral awareness as a starting-point, that there becomes possible that cry from us towards the creative principle, and that demand by it on us, which each must answer in his own way.
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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A typewriter forces you to keep going, to march forward.
