Jose James Quotes
I think my first musical memory is actually listening to Billie Holiday. I think I must have been, like, 3 or 4 years old.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw.
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Worship is love on its knees before the beloved; just as mission is love on its feet to serve the beloved
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I work with my brother Finneas, and he produces all of my music in his little bedroom in our house. We actually tried renting out a studio for a month when we were producing 'Don't Smile at Me,' but it was really hard there, and we ended up just doing it at home anyway.
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Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.
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I take it that he is more than just a woodcutter. "No one is just a woodcutter, " replied Terence. "A person's always more than his present occupation.
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I think my first musical memory is actually listening to Billie Holiday. I think I must have been, like, 3 or 4 years old.
