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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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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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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There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom and when.
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Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book.
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As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.
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A deep ocean under the icy crust of Ganymede opens up further exciting possibilities for life beyond Earth.
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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.
