James McBride Quotes
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.
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People always ask me if I'm nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn't seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.
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I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.
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Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
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I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.
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I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.
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There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
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Belushi was one of my very first heroes. At a time when film, television, and music were undergoing tectonic shifts within American culture, he was at the center of it all. At that moment, he had the number one show on television, the number one film at the box office, and the number one record on the charts.
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I will defend and enforce the laws of our country to ensure that our people and our nation are protected.
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I'm not a big fan of Putin. I'm not a big fan of Russia.
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It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!
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I'm a little bit of a hippie at heart, so I always wear things that are comfortable and flowing.
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I don't worry about gaining weight. I'm fortunate in that I've never had to worry about that. Some people eat when they are stressed. I don't eat enough.
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Don't ever insult a Chicano about being a Chicano because then all the other Chicanos will be on you with a vengeance. They will even fight each to be first in line to support you.
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For 'American Born Chinese,' my first graphic novel with First Second Books, I did mostly 'memory' research. It's fiction, but I pulled heavily from my own childhood.
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I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.
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The celebrity's desire to shape the next generation of young minds by opening a school is by no means unique to Diddy.
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I can't be a creative person if I'm a celebrity.
