James McBride Quotes
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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I watch a lot of football.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'
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I went in, and there, in the front room, a converted bedroom, sat the first radio I had ever seen. The equipment was so bulky that it took up one entire wall of the bedroom. The set, which could send or receive signals, was tuned to KDKA in Pittsburgh, and I remember being completely flabbergasted at the thought of sounds coming from that box.
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America's first black president cannot and will not be succeeded by a hatemonger who refuses to condemn the KKK.
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I can't picture myself being the people I always looked up to.
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I want all of the work that I do to have a social justice footprint attached. I want it to move the needle forward when it comes to the perception of all people, but especially people of color.
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What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.
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If I grew up in a truly color-blind society, I would not be a black American.
