James McBride Quotes
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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Fashion anticipates.
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The Melvins are grunge.
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My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
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My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act.
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I was just blown away by everything my dad was doing, every play. It was amazing to be able to go as a young person to the theater and see these visuals and how creative it could be. More than anything it was realizing you could do that as a life path.
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Humanity has to start noticing that we are One. We are connected with the net of beings who are the life of this planet - and before we take them all down, we ought to see what we can do to preserve this unique and extraordinary family. That's what I think the wounded healer would do. We're all wounded in one way or another. The question is, can we heal?
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If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
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There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very fact the necessity of the actual infinite can be demonstrated.
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Anyone can write your own life story.
