James Bay Quotes
There should be an element of mystique between the fans and the artist. That bit between the stage and the audience. I think that's necessary.
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I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan.
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But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
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I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.
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I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.
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Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates.
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Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.
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I always think I love work, and I knew early on that I wanted to be an actress. Then I meet people who have truly dedicated their lives to acting, and I realise that I'm so completely in the back seat.
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
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Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.
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Amiri Baraka went to Howard. Lucille Clifton went to Howard. Ossie Davis went to Howard. And I was aware of that when I was there. Charles Drew went to Howard. Thurgood Marshall went to the law school. Being aware of that and having all of that brought to bear, again, it's one of those things that I can't really separate from my career as a writer.
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There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
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If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.
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I think Picasso is more feminine than Matisse.
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I would like to think that I curse expertly - it's not something that I do without considering it. I never curse without intending to; it's not something I resort to because of inability to articulate or find the correct word.
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Malraux writes in a language in which there is no way to say 'perhaps' or 'I don't know,' so that after a while we grow accustomed to saying it for him.
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The Internet doesn’t just offer opportunities for misogynistic abuse, you know. Penis enlargers can also be bought discreetly.
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I have to be able to be honest and be credible, and I think I can say, 'This guy did not have his best game today' rather than, 'He is awful and I cannot believe he did that.'
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Just knowing how the body works and being athletic means it's easier to stay athletic while working a different job.
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It is a grand book worthy of one’s hopes of you. A most powerful piece of well organized analysis with high aesthetic qualities, though written more perhaps than you see yourself for the cognoscenti in the temple and not for those at the gate. Anyhow I prefer it for intellectual enjoyment to any recent attempts in this vein.
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I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.
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I have never quite understood the relationship between beauty and weakness, womanly sweetness and womanly silliness; to my mind, indeed, that woman being the most beautiful who is the most capable, while weakness and silliness can never by any chance be other than unlovely.
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There should be an element of mystique between the fans and the artist. That bit between the stage and the audience. I think that's necessary.
