James McBride Quotes
People process pain differently. My family, we were pretty humorous about things that went on.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.
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I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.
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The Western world is having an identity crisis.
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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
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Study the field that you want to get into and know everything about it.
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I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time.
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People process pain differently. My family, we were pretty humorous about things that went on.
