James A. Baldwin Quotes
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
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Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
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Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work.
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I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.
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I'm very blessed that I get to dabble in both music and movies, and as long as people are willing to accept me in both roles, I'll be there.
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
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My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.
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When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.
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I've had people in the family, male and female, impacted by heart disease. But people can prevent it.
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The 'Backlisted' podcast describes itself as 'giving new life to old books'. In each episode, John Mitchinson and Andy Miller are joined by a guest from the world of books who brings along some overlooked gem to enthuse about.
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I feel old.
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My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.
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A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.
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The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
