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James McBride Quotes

Don't get me started on Americans and war. One of the things I learnt over in Italy is how they mythologised the war so that it's all good old gung-ho guys from Omaha and ignored everyone else's role.

James McBride

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 11, 1957

Topics

Good War Me Old Over Everyone

I was a perfect mother.

Maye Musk

Mother Perfect

I think people figure out early in their lives what currency they can work in.

Merrill Markoe

Work People Think Early Out I Think

That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that turkey meat, in its cooked state, is dry and flavorless. Does it have to be that way? No. We just have to focus on what the turkey is and what the turkey needs.

Alton Brown

Great Focus Hide Goal Create Skin

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.

Spike Lee

Good Job Dinner Slavery You Singer

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

Stockwell Day

Freedom Believe Speech I Believe

Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.

Steven Rattner

Ideas Wacky Economic Extreme Often

Doing a musical is like having a kid. It's out there alive somewhere. It's not like a movie or a TV show where what we intended is what everyone will see. The kid can act out. The kid's going to do what it wants to do.

Trey Parker

Doing Alive Will Kid See Out

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.

Tom Waits

Loved Performer Vaudeville Burns

There is a sense of melancholy attached to seeing images of yourself from a different era, especially when you see a picture.

Roger Taylor

Yourself Picture You Seeing See Era

Obviously, there are moments that you look back at and cringe - things in the past involving violence or disrespect to women or disrespect to other people that are so far away from what I want to put out there now. But it's actually a privilege to be able to change and be making records that reflect that change.

Mike D

Change Women Past People Disrespect

It always surprised me that I was getting acting work.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

Work Me Acting Always Surprised

'Traffic' was so good, and I really don't want to take a step back.

Miguel Ferrer

Good Step Back Traffic Want Take