James Carl Inkanish, Jr. (Jimmy Carl Black) Quotes

I know I didn't like that dress 'cause it didn't fit but I thought it was a great picture. We weren't the first band to do a picture in drag; The Rolling Stones were. If it was good enough for them then it had to be good enough for us.

James Carl Inkanish, Jr.

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• Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.

  

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• Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!

  

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• I don't know the right way to retire.

  

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• I love my sleep.

  

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• As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.

  

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• I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.

  

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• I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

  

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• When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.

  

  Wallace Shawn
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• I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.

  

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• My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

  

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• It's not my goal to be a famous actor.

  

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• Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'

  

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• I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.

  

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• I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.

  

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• Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

  

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• True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

  

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• I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you can't see on the small screen but you can definitely see on the big screen.

  

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• When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.

  

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• Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

  

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• Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.

  

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• I don't think we're individually amazing musicians, but what we do collectively is pretty good.

  

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• MMA, cricket, or anything, you cannot just coast. Every day, you have to wake up hungry.

  

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• Get me a drink. I get drunk off one sip, just so I can adore you. I want the entire street out of town just so I can be alone with you.

  

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• I know I didn't like that dress 'cause it didn't fit but I thought it was a great picture. We weren't the first band to do a picture in drag; The Rolling Stones were. If it was good enough for them then it had to be good enough for us.

  

  James Carl Inkanish, Jr.
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