James T. Farrell Quotes
The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do.
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I take four planes a week, honestly. You know, I am for intelligence screening.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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It's kind of fun to be sexy.
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It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
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We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you start has nothing to do with how far you can come.
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I'm really a paddler on a beach.
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I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.
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No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
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The people will always attempt to find the positive aspects of all circumstances, which, in themselves, are not susceptible to danger.
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Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.
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I released that I could crank out a song if I practiced it a lot. If I am in the practice of writing songs everyday or every other day, getting ideas and following through with them, and not just saying "I've got this idea, but I will get to it at some point." If I actually sit down and not be lazy, and follow through with it then you just get in the practice of doing things. It feels very productive, and then it gets a lot easier, because you are working the muscle in your brain. The "song-writing muscle" so to speak.
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Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don't care about movies.
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I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.
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The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.
