James McBride Quotes
The whole notion of owning a person is so ludicrous, there's plenty of room to make fun.
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To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' He's on the side of the bad guys, but he obviously doesn't want to be there.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.
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The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.
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Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.
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There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.
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People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.
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I never thought I would say this, but I'm desperate to do an action film.
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If you want to be loved, be lovable.
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Think of your favorite teacher you ever had in school: the one who made it the most fun to go to class. They surprise you. They keep you guessing. They keep you coming back, wanting to know what's going to happen next.
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Bouncy trouncy flouncy pouncy fun fun fun fun fun. The most wonderful thing about tiggers is I'm the only one!
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When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.
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The whole notion of owning a person is so ludicrous, there's plenty of room to make fun.
