James McBride Quotes

I'm not one of those who can listen to music and write. I need the door closed. Windows shut. Facing the wall. No birds tweeting, views of nature, and so forth.

James McBride

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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When you are playing 'Survivor', getting a shelter up immediately is the most important thing.

Jenna Morasca

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Ram Gopal Varma is a most noteworthy talent and has given us some very valuable iconic films. I enjoy working with him.

Amitabh Bachchan

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I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.

Tony Kushner

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I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.

Mary Quant

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Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

Lorraine Toussaint

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As long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.

Jules Verne

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We could play them through the week, and then the weekend we could play the black joints. I learned to be very versatile and learned to love it. So it stays with me even up to now.

Little Milton

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I have a fear of being boring.

Christian Bale

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Television has a real problem. They have no page two.

Art Buchwald

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I have absolute faith in the correctness of my course.

Ariel Sharon

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Forwards do a lot of things intuitively.

Arjen Robben

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