James Tate Quotes

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• I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Up
  • Music
  • Believe

• I dig all kinds of competition.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Competition
  • Kinds
  • Dig

• In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Sales

• Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • People
  • Life
  • Road

• I always give RZA that support as far as saying he brought Wu-Tang to the table. It was his philosophy. He picked certain dudes to be part of this group, and he said, 'This is what it's going to be called.'

  

  Raekwon
  • Support
  • Philosophy
  • Saying

• My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • She
  • Mother
  • Black

• Pop music should be about young people.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • People
  • Music
  • Young

• Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Player
  • King
  • Hero

• My children were brought up with their grandparents, and I was brought up with my grandparents. I think the continuity of moving through life together gives people a certain pride and sense of security.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Hand

• Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address that in very forthright language and sometimes with images.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Different
  • Power
  • Control

• Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Voice

• When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Acting

• Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Friends

• Calm on the bosom of thy God,Fair spirit, rest thee now!

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • God
  • Rest
  • Calm

• The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her 'beauty.' Her reproductive value, as the 'aesthetic' value of her face and body today, 'came to be seen as a sacred trust, one that she must constantly guard in the interest of her race.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • She
  • Today
  • Value

• With sociology one can do anything and call it work.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Work

• A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed time, can be savored of itself and without the usual adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Past

• Anything you think of doing, however insignificant, should be done immediately. Spur yourself on and carry it through without becoming discouraged. If this becomes an ingrained habit, things you thought were impossible will become possible, and closed doors will open, as you will discover in many ways.

  

  Shinichi Suzuki
  • Habit
  • Impossible
  • Discouraged

• It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.

  

  Elon Musk
  • God
  • Power

• Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Scripture
  • Imaginative
  • Pastors

• Culturally, it's really funny to me that people respect the weird guy as an artist. There can be a curmudgeon in the corner with spiders building nests in his hair, and he hasn't bathed for three weeks, but for whatever reason, he's more creative than the guy sitting next to him that's showered and is talking to everybody.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • People
  • Guy
  • Funny

• We try to make films for people [that are] the films that we'd like to see. They're not easy to get made. They're hard to get made. You have to keep the budget low to get them made. But at the end of the day, I don't really worry about competition, because I don't really think of it that way. I don't feel like I'm in a race with anybody.

  

  George Clooney
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Worry

• I like to start with the ordinary, and then nudge it, and then think, 'What happens next, what happens next?'

  James Tate