James McBride Quotes

As far as making a living, if plumbing earned more, I'd probably do it. At least you can leave the job at home once the tools are put away. A writer works in his mind 24/7.

James McBride

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.

Meir Kahane

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I always play women I would date.

Angelina Jolie

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It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

Sidney Poitier

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I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.

Rita Ora

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Growing up, I was a giant KISS fan, and the truth is the record I had was 'Rock and Roll Over,' and there wasn't even a clear picture of them in the packaging! So I really had no idea what they looked like; I just loved their music.

Rivers Cuomo

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When I had my tryout, just from two days being in the ring, learning to bump, hit the ropes, and things like that, I came home, and my back was just one huge bruise.

Roman Reigns

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For my first job interview out of college, I wore a cream-colored cotton suit with cap sleeves and an inverted box pleat skirt that was appropriate for the late-August heat - and wildly discordant with the Red Hook offices of the graffiti magazine I had called twice to find.

Mary H.K. Choi

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Anybody else who's gotten the president of the United States elected, tell me you are better than I am at it.

Dick Morris

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You can meditate on almost anything: a prayer, song, image or word. Close your eyes; sit in a comfortable position. Take a breath, and say the word out loud, emphasizing the humming sound at the end. When you come to the end of the breath, take another one and say the word again. And so on.

Dean Ornish

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I wanted to act when I was young. When I was 12, I asked the head of English at my school, 'Can I audition?' and he said, 'What would we want you for?' And I remember going, 'Oh yeah. Why would they want me?'

Alison Moyet

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Our style of hip-hop, our style of beats, our style of rhymes - you gonna give us burn. We gonna get our burn that we deserve.

Prodigy

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