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James McBride Quotes

I write stories that are already in the air, and I think it's important to have the correct listening device to tune in to that frequency.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Listening Think Important Write Air

The bottom line is fans just want to hear a good song. Some people will look underneath to see who wrote it, but they just want to hear a good song. And if they don't hear it, they're not going to buy it just because you wrote it.

Good People Song You Look Want

The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.

Technology Apple Create Reason Arts

If you keep having to dip into the story's past to explain the present, then there's a good chance your real story's in the past, and you're just using the present as a vehicle to deliver us there.

Stephen Graham Jones

Good Past Chance Story Present You

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

Mother Invention Caught Getting

Our biggest competitor is ourselves.

Competitor Our Ourselves Biggest

Black people who want to do comedy go into standup, where our heroes opened a lot of doors. Improv doesn't have a ton of heroes that you can look to.

People Black Comedy Doors You Look

Finding someone to share your life with is one of the most important things a human can do and was preached to me by my mother.

Life Mother Me Someone Finding

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

Proud America Late Why Real Found

People say I am the king of painful shoes.

Christian Louboutin

Shoes I Am King People Say Painful

The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and discontent.

Anger People Political You Know Way

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.

Mom Years Bakery French Architect

If you are realistic about how our present society works, the economic clout - and a lot of the political clout, frankly - is in the business sector. And it's the locus of innovation.

Business Innovation Society Present

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