James McBride Quotes

You can't write just anything. Your story needs structure.

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• I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Feel
  • Audience
  • Sensitive

• Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Great
  • School
  • Change

• Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Singing
  • Point

• Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Think

• My favourite book in the world is 'Neuromancer' by William Gibson.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • World
  • Book
  • Favourite

• My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • You
  • Stop
  • Hair

• As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Hollywood
  • Most
  • Captain

• Before the release of my film, small or big, the feeling is always the same.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Feeling
  • Small
  • Always

• I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Reading

• When we fight we're going to fight fight, for real fight. He thinks he's the ninja, I'm the ninja- Ninja Gaiden, American ninja, real motherfucking ninja. This ninja martial artist right here-I started that shit.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Real
  • American

• ...something can be so much more than the parts it took to make it, and why people need things around them that lift them above their lives and make them feel the miracle of living.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Why
  • Miracle

• I have a great family, I have great friends, and my mom is like my mama bear. She's the one that's going to tell me 'no' when everyone around me says 'yes.

  

  Selena Gomez
  • Great
  • Family
  • Friends

• Hockey has given me everything, most importantly it brought me to Swift Current, where I met my wife Deb.

  

  Joe Sakic
  • Wife
  • Hockey

• Philip's story is the most interesting in the royal family - his background is the opposite of what you'd think. Everyone has this idea that Philip is this bumbling, deliberately posh sort of man who says the wrong thing.

  

  Claire Foy
  • Family
  • Interesting

• I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.

  

  Jenna-Louise Coleman
  • Drama
  • Period

• When I started, I'd hear other people saying, 'God, she's so bizarre-looking,' because I didn't look like the girl next door. But I was just normal. I was the girl next door. There were people in high fashion I could better relate to who were doing something more interesting and not talking this sort of rubbish.

  

  Alek Wek
  • People
  • God
  • She

• I loved the Yashraj shows 'Powder' and 'Shaadi.com.'

  

  Barun Sobti

• High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage.

  

  Alan Autry
  • Research
  • Heritage
  • Complement

• I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Envy

• I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Struggle

• No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side.

  

  Bob Riley
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fear

• You can't write just anything. Your story needs structure.

  

  James McBride