James Brown Quotes
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate. But freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion. And I think that anything we can do to promote the idea that people should express their faith is a good thing.
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Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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I used to be so scared about, 'Oh, I don't want to show my body.' Now that I've shown it, it doesn't bug me about my moles, or 'This isn't big enough' and 'That's not smooth enough.'
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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Our relationships are precious, valuable treasures from heaven, and we should handle them carefully, always looking for ways to build bridges to each other's hearts.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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But I just think as a captain, everybody's different.
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The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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When you grow up middle class, you just always feel like you've got to be working, or you won't be able to pay the bills.
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I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)
