James A. Baldwin Quotes
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I'm most drawn to characters who are compelling and repellant at the same time, very often right at the same moment, and who are frightening and funny all at once.
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We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.
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The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.
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If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can't protect their conversations, in particular their political conversations, I think you take a long step toward making a transition from a free society to a totalitarian society.
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If you don't have a healthy relationship with yourself, how can you with anyone else? Even if it's not healthy, I imagine it's a lot of fun. And healthy or not, I still think there can be a lot of love.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
