James McBride Quotes
I don't live for my work. My life is my life. That's more important, and I think that helps my work.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
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I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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It's a big statement if you use the word 'America' in the title of your poem.
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To ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame.
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We don't really think that much about what we do; it's just fun.
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Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.
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Because in America people don't worship government. They worship God.
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I don't live for my work. My life is my life. That's more important, and I think that helps my work.
