James Carl Inkanish, Jr. (Jimmy Carl Black) Quotes
It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.
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The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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There's always a knee-jerk reaction in our business to analyze and determine why something didn't work.
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Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
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I think people get confused about who Merlin is. It's not his age that makes him: it's wisdom, and wisdom is not necessarily linked to age. Definitely not in the same way in the world of 'Once Upon a Time.'
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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If someone has money, they can put their child in a private school, paying tens of thousands of dollars for tuition. But their child's needs are met. What is lacking is options for that single mom with three kids, or just that intact family but lower income.
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It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.
