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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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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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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I'd love to see an openly gay player, a really, really good gay player come out.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical.
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On the 1983 general election (The News of the World, 19 June 1983).
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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.
