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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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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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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A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.
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I am fascinated by Omega's history. Particularly the First World War stuff, when they made watches for the flying corps, and the NASA side of it.
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I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.
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I like to make people laugh and have fun.
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My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
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I do read many of the photography magazines from the U.K. and abroad.
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Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.
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The whole notion of owning a person is so ludicrous, there's plenty of room to make fun.
