James Tate Quotes
I like to start with the ordinary, and then nudge it, and then think, 'What happens next, what happens next?'James Tate
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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.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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I really love the '90s. I love the music from then for sure, and to go back to New York then would be a really wonderful thing.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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Pop music should be about young people.
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Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
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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.
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But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.
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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.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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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.
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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.
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Calm on the bosom of thy God,Fair spirit, rest thee now!
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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.'
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With sociology one can do anything and call it work.
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I want to write theater pieces, opera, or some kind of amalgamation where there is singing, music and theater.
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I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.
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'The Rachel Maddow Show' is a piece of sleight of hand presented as a cable news show. It is TV entertainment at its finest.
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If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that.
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How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started - that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed.
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I like to start with the ordinary, and then nudge it, and then think, 'What happens next, what happens next?'
James Tate
