James McBride Quotes

You can't live for literature. You can't live for the job.

James McBride

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

Jim Rohn

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I don't plot, and I don't plan. I like to be surprised like the reader.

Joe R. Lansdale

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On my left knee I have a long scar from an ACL operation. I've had both knees reconstructed.

Joe Rogan

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But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

John Cleese

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If all the shows on television were about happy, functional relationships, first of all I don't know how many role models there are out there, sadly. And secondly, who would watch? Drama is conflict.

Andrea Roth

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Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to.

Andrew Mason

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I'm very fond of Glasgow, particularly the West End. The whole stretch of the west coast of Scotland from Loch Lomond up through Mallaig to the Kyle of Localsh is so beautiful.

John Niven

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I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

Maurice Sendak

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My dad was an FBI agent. My mom and dad were straight arrow types, and I had a conservative, suburban Orange County upbringing.

Steve Breen

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We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.

Stephen Harper

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I was absolutely bathed in love. I was so young, starting at age 3, that working seemed very normal. I thought everybody went to work.

Shirley Temple

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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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