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James McBride Quotes

I don't like living around too many fancy-pantsy folks. That ain't my thing. I'm not into phony people.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Living Phony Like Around Too

I can understand the dilemma of growing up in a bubble, and then not knowing what to do when unemployment beckons and reality bursts in.

Growing Up Reality Not Knowing I Can

And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable.

John Frankenheimer

Time Responsibility Best Money Day

When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it.

Look Go Never Up Shooting Watch

I can't be left unsupervised.

I consider myself lucky to be going about my business doing something I love.

Love Business Myself Doing Lucky

Anyone who believes that it is possible to educate the will without cultivating the insight that enlivens it is succumbing to illusion. Clear-sightedness on this point is a task for present-day pedagogy, but it can come only from a life-filled understanding of the whole human being.

Understanding Illusion Will Possible

I would love for everyone to be a feminist, but I have to respect people's choices. If you don't want to be a feminist and don't want to claim feminism, that's entirely your right.

Love Respect People Choices You

When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.

Monica Bellucci

Time Together People Divorce Tragedy

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

Success World Injustice Forget Us

Well, usually, when you're doing a sitcom, you get a script and every word or for the most part, is written. So, you know, if it's a 30-minute sitcom, then it's a 35-page script or something like that.

Doing You Know Something Well Get

Ambassadors are, by definition, foreign bodies.

Definition Foreign Bodies

There are a lot of female characters out there that, when they fall on hard times, they sort of stew in their fears and negativities and vulnerabilities. And there's something that's really truthful about that - when I've gone through hard times or breakups, I've spent a lot of time on my couch overeating and crying with friends, that's true.

Time Friends Fall True Hard Out

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