James McBride Quotes

My father died in 1957, just before I was born. My mother went to her Jewish aunt, who slammed the door in her face.

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• I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Work
  • Why
  • Kids

• I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Play
  • Simple
  • Watch

• A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Review

• When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Parents
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• I was an English major in college!

  

  Maggie Siff
  • College
  • English
  • Major

• Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Up
  • Different
  • Like

• I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Love
  • Relationship

• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Constitution
  • Most
  • Faults

• I was rubbish at school.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • School
  • Rubbish

• Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • She
  • Look
  • Creation

• I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Different
  • Trying

• Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Friends
  • Hate
  • Best

• I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Journey

• Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn't have worked. So when one of our wise managers suggested the idea of considering two different album, it cleared the way for us.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Different
  • Way
  • Wise

• I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Character
  • Remember
  • Respect

• I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not be right, because I'm the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It's the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Present
  • Gossip

• When I wake up every morning, I smile and say, 'Thank you.' Because out of my window I can see the mountains, then go hiking with my dog and share her bounding joy in the world.

  

  Carole King
  • Up
  • World
  • Joy

• I'm very involved with PETA - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals - and Greenpeace and a lot of women's shelter and clothing giveaways.

  

  Pink
  • People
  • Women

• My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • Father

• Every choice leads you somewhere, but it might not be where you truly want to be if the decision is based on someone else. It could lead to regrets and what-ifs, but that doesn't mean you wouldn't still have valuable experiences.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Decision

• My father died in 1957, just before I was born. My mother went to her Jewish aunt, who slammed the door in her face.

  

  James McBride
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Door