James McBride Quotes

My main problem with fiction is that once my characters get moving, you just have to follow them along and get out of the way of the story, but sometimes they pull me in too many directions, and I need to focus.

James McBride

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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FocusMeMovingStoryProblemYou

I just take it day by day, and I hope one day I can say I feel good - not just be cancer free, but just feel good. I'm just living every day to the fullest: I enjoy myself, I have fun, and I pray every day that it doesn't come back.

Jim Kelly

GoodHopeMyselfDayFunFeel Good

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

John Calvin

FearSailShipSeeingPilotWhy

Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

ThinkGivingPrivilegeDuty

I think it's really easy to just get caught up in what everyone else is doing, so I think the most important thing to remember is to be really strong in your own shoes. That is the main thing for me. The one thing that kind of gets in my way sometimes is when I'm a little too aware of everybody else.

Jennifer Damiano

ShoesMeStrongThinkDoingEasy

I usually don't wear makeup, and if I do, it's later in the day if I have to get my act together for work for some reason.

Jennifer Garner

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I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.

Maximilian Schell

BeautifulThinkTragedyLinePoet

You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which... The year after I left school, I went back and thanked the sergeant major because I was so fit.

John Newcombe

SchoolFridayYearYouBackKnow

We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.

Stephen Ambrose

TodayCountryExistenceGoneUs

I've always been really ambitious, whatever I do. At school, I always wanted to be the best in the class - no, it wasn't enough to be the best in the class, I'd want to be the best in the country.

Sophia Myles

BestSchoolEnoughCountryWant

I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.

Tony Abbott

LawWantCloningHumanSeeWould

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

Tony Blair

SurvivalHandsFindPersonNormal

The world is not uni-cultural. We must live together rather than seeking to dominate each other. The people in the world cannot accept domination anymore.

Mohammed Morsi

LiveTogetherPeopleWorldAccept

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