James A. Baldwin Quotes
Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which is fine.
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And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise.
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When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that is generally described, in a pejorative sense, as grotesque. Of course, I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.... Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.
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Pretty excited to get to Boston. Great city and great team; they're in the race. They want to win here, and that's what I want to do.
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During the shoot, when you're not at work, you're learning lines for the next shoot, and that can be all-consuming.
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Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
