Marlon James Quotes

My first novel, 'John Crow's Devil,' freed me up to write about the past, and 'The Book of Night Women' freed me up to have a book totally based on voice and being very spontaneous.

Marlon James

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: jamaican
  • Birth: November 16, 1976

Topics

WomenPastMeNightBookVoice

I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.

Jodi Picoult

LovePeopleSisterThinkCareYou

History speaks pretty clearly that the markets do better with Democrats. Republicans' ideas of what constitutes fiscal responsibility simply are not good for the stock market. Democrats have many tendencies, but one of them is to look after the workers, and actually that tends to be good for demand and good for markets.

Jeremy Grantham

GoodHistoryResponsibilityIdeas

Oh my goodness, they are rocking so many variations of my high-top fade. I mean, Rihanna has taken it to a very angular 21st Century thing. Miss Fantasia has it in a very seductive, you know, up-flip, and it's just lovely, right? Oh, I think it's wonderful.

Anita Baker

ThinkYouGoodnessKnowFadeMean

The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.

Roger Ebert

AmericanYouLostHollywoodBecome

My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house.

Romeo Miller

HouseAlwaysUsedUnclesStudioDad

We all aren't in government, we all aren't CEOs, but we all are somebody.

Michael Tubbs

GovernmentSomebodyCEOs

You know, when I am working, I take really, really good care of myself. I eat really well, and I exercise, and again, I have this team of people pulling me together every day.

Michelle Pfeiffer

GoodMyselfDayTogetherI AmTeam

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

Moliere

LoveFriendsNothingMorePureOur

I dictate the pace of my fights and no one else.

Luke Rockhold

PaceDictateElseFights

Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it.

Christopher Heyerdahl

NatureMotherGreatYouAwayGet

The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired.

Colleen Atwood

TodayEyesResearchMovementGone

I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!

Brian Blessed

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