James McBride Quotes
All of us want to be Superman when we grow up, fighting for truth and justice. That's part of what drives me as a writer.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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I got no hate in me.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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I love the Army with every bone in my body.
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I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a difference, a very genuine belief that people matter, a very genuine belief of wanting the very best for individuals.
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A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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If I was into politics, I would be rich.
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Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.
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I first came to London as a musician, and when my group broke up, I did 'Guys and Dolls' at the Watford Palace theatre. After that, Ned Sherrin found me and brought me to the West End to do one of his shows. The work went from strength to strength, so I thought: 'This is where the world wants me; I'll stay.'
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Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice
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All of us want to be Superman when we grow up, fighting for truth and justice. That's part of what drives me as a writer.
