James McBride Quotes

I'm not one of those deeper, ethereal writers. I'm just trying to get it done.

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• When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Past

• Sometimes we do things that are really awful.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Sometimes
  • Things
  • Awful

• People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Technology
  • Data

• Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Country
  • American

• Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Work
  • Important
  • May

• I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Want
  • Picture
  • Paint

• Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Support
  • Building
  • Israel

• Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Question
  • Learning
  • Curiosity

• Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Simple
  • Yourself
  • Leader

• The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Work
  • Think
  • Way

• I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Will
  • Caring
  • Walk

• Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Neighbor
  • Tall

• Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Beauty
  • Movies

• Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Change
  • Being

• I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Love

• I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • People
  • Love
  • Walk

• All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Long
  • Day
  • Door

• I was with - he wasn't the president then, but - Barack Obama, when he was running, in Washington, during Black Congressional Caucus Weekend, and did a panel about global warming with him. It was almost as if I switched careers for a while, and became a political activist.

  

  Lawrence Bender
  • Political
  • Black
  • Running

• With all the auditions you do, there is a lot of rejection you have to take as well. You get used to that.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • You
  • Rejection
  • Take

• I think it's sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.

  

  Kelly McGillis
  • People
  • Art
  • Hope

• There are some projects where you have to just start doing it, and, after a while, the show starts telling you what it wants to be. You put your spirit in and, after a while, something bigger takes over, and it turns out to be much more fun and creative than what it was at the beginning.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Fun
  • Beginning

• When I'm an old lady, I'm going to have my pick of the young men. They'll be like, 'She's Miss Mary Jane!' The young boys will think I'm a hot old lady.

  

  Kirsten Dunst
  • Men
  • She

• I'm not one of those deeper, ethereal writers. I'm just trying to get it done.

  

  James McBride
  • Trying
  • Done