James Bay Quotes
Growing up in Hitchin was comfortable and easy enough. My parents had some great records - and some not-so-great ones - and that's where I got introduced to Motown and the Stones and Springsteen.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
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I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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When you look at Apple News and where it started, I want it to be available to everyone. But we also want to make sure the news producers are legitimate... We're very concerned about what's news items and what's clickbait.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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I believe in operating in the big middle of the electorate and not being to the far right or the far left. I think you get so much more done.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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'Fiji can make a similar report on the US on all those issues. Our report would be far worse than the US state department's report on Fiji.' (2 March 2005, reacting to a US State Department report critical on the state of race relations in Fiji).
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A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them 'feel bad.' But, hey, if they've done something wrong, they should feel bad. Kids with a sense of responsibility, not entitlement, who know when to experience gratitude and humility, will be better at navigating the social shoals of college.
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I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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When I was 14, I came to school in London. I remember it was very cold, but also having to adjust and become fluent in English.
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Growing up in Hitchin was comfortable and easy enough. My parents had some great records - and some not-so-great ones - and that's where I got introduced to Motown and the Stones and Springsteen.
