James McBride Quotes
Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.
Quotes to Explore
-
To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album.
-
My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
-
If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
-
There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
-
I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
-
It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
-
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
-
There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
-
Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
-
If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.
-
I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
-
Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
-
You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
-
Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
-
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
-
I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
-
I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
-
My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
-
Manipulated, one manipulates others.
-
The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too.
-
I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, 'What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?' I get what you're saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.
-
I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.
-
Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.
