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James McBride Quotes

I hate to sound blase about it, but literary status is not important to me. Being happy is important to me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Hate Happy Me Being Happy Important

I love those films where I feel the director's confidence - where he doesn't need to overdo it with the shots and the cuts.

Jean-Marc Vallee

Love Confidence Feel Need Director

The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.

People America Group More Odds Out

If you're going to believe in God, if you're going to take that leap of faith, as I do, then the God that seems the most comprehensible to me would be the God who set us spinning and said 'Good luck.'

Roger Rosenblatt

Good God Faith Me Luck Good Luck

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Responsibility Government Baby End

I really want to do everything I can to try to win a game or win on a play. You get fiery; you get chippy out there, but a lot of respect, I never have anybody, like, talk trash in my career in the league, or I don't talk trash. I think guys respect the fact that I'm coming.

Respect Win Game Think You Career

I was an offensive defenseman. I was up the ice as much as I was back.

Ice Back Up Offensive Much

I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment.

Moment Parent Actor Single Going

Nine out of nine architects start with a sketch, and then they say, 'What should we make it out of?' I start from the bottom up - what should it be made out of - and then I worry about what should it look like. The material, the color of the material, the way it feels, and the way you respond to it is every bit as valid as the form or the shape.

Start Color Worry You Look Sketch

When I get the possibility of using a character like Bruce Wayne or Dick Grayson, I try and think about what's most exciting or interesting about them as a person, so I try and think what they are at their core, or what piece of their psychology do I gravitate toward that I respect, and I'm excited by it when I read books about them.

Character Respect Think Interesting

I don't like all suburbs, just like I don't like all parts of cities.

Just Like Suburbs Parts Cities

With indies, all they have is their script and it's very important to them. The characters are better drawn, the stories more precise and the experience greater than with studio films where sometimes they fill in the script as they're shooting.

Experience Better Important Sometimes

Marvel and Netflix have proven they know what they're doing.

Doing Know Netflix Marvel Proven

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