James Henderson (Big James Henderson) Quotes
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I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I didn't have many girlfriends in my youth. I was an active young man, jumping from one girl to the next, but never with anyone for more than three or four months.
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I had maybe watched 'The Apprentice' a couple of times. I didn't know that in later seasons they deported half of their contestants into tents in the backyard. They called it Trump's trailer park.
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I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.
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I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
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Music videos are an especially fun thing to watch - I bet from the outside, too - because you learn so much, just like in our music... It's really fun work.
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Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
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It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.
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I never did steroids in my life. I know all the fighters; they are all on steroids.
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To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.
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We can never say it often or loudly enough: Immigrants and refugees revitalize and renew America.
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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
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Nobles’ sons are one of nature’s great destructive forces, like floods or tornadoes. When you’re struck with one of these catastrophes, the only thing an average man can do is grit his teeth and try to minimize the damage.
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I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving,England is mine and it owes me a living
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I think that she's a great dame. I'm crazy for Lucille.
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The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
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The first exception [to the First Amendment] will not be the last.
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At the very outset I have to tell you that truth is what it is. You cannot mold it, you cannot change it. It is always the same. It has been the same, it is the same, it will be the same. But to say that we know the truth and that we have the truth is really a self-deception. If you had known the absolute truth there would have been no problems and everybody would have said the same thing. There would be no discussions, no arguments, no fights and wars. But when we don't know the absolute truth then we can find out our own mental conceptions as the truth. But this mind is so limited.
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My poor little New Zealand: exporting frozen meat in peace, live meat in war.
