James McBride Quotes
Atticus Finch is, you know, he was just his whole - the business of his modesty and his ability to see tomorrow and to try to buttress his knowledge of what was coming for his kids was something that I'll never - as a father I'm not able to do.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
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The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.
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I found myself sort of becoming a character actor, though I don't know if that would be my natural makeup.
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I think that on the whole man would be living a more natural life if he were a vegetarian.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertaker's assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
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Atticus Finch is, you know, he was just his whole - the business of his modesty and his ability to see tomorrow and to try to buttress his knowledge of what was coming for his kids was something that I'll never - as a father I'm not able to do.
