James McBride Quotes

I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.

James McBride

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• I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Beautiful
  • Mom
  • Grandmother

• When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Song

• Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Words
  • Vague
  • Properly

• The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Live
  • American

• I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Always
  • Mirror
  • Little

• I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Mercy
  • Drive

• Sometimes we do things that are really awful.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Sometimes
  • Things
  • Awful

• It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • God
  • Home

• When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • People
  • Know
  • Interested

• I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Up
  • Think

• I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • World
  • God
  • Done

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Beaujolais is so underrated.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Underrated

• I pretty much preach, teach and nag.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Pretty
  • Teach
  • Preach

• Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Health
  • Boundaries
  • Over

• We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • May
  • Ready
  • Event

• I read things like theology, and I read about science, 'Scientific American' and publications like that, because they stimulate again and again my sense of the almost arbitrary given-ness of experience, the fact that nothing can be taken for granted.

  

  Marilynne Robinson
  • Experience
  • American
  • Science

• The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

  

  Peter Ustinov
  • Truth
  • Ambition

• We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • World
  • Change
  • Moments

• When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Happy
  • Peace
  • Question

• I'm not the savior of men's tennis in America. I'm just a kid trying to win a few matches.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Kids

• I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.

  

  James McBride
  • Trying
  • Wish
  • Moral