James McBride Quotes

We don't know who John Brown was, and in many ways, his work shaped where we are today. He was a Pennsylvanian. He was the prototypical Yankee who fought back and suffered in doing so.

James McBride

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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WorkTodayDoingBackKnowWhere

My generation remembered going to the movies as an event. We would see these things, we would bring them home, and we would think about them for years because it would take a long time before they would go on television where you could re-experience the fun that you had when you watched them.

Joe Dante

HomeTimeFunThinkGenerationYou

I have two speeds, nothing and full pelt.

Andre Rieu

NothingTwoSpeedsFull

I started drawing when I was about 2, mostly pictures of my mother and my sister. When I got into school, instead of taking the notes that I should have been taking, I was drawing in all of my notebooks. It was an artwork thing for me at first.

Megan Fox

MotherSchoolMeSisterDrawing

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'

Steve Ballmer

BusinessTrustPeopleSome People

I have this magpie instinct for the next glittering object. There are one or two things I know I can't write about, though: DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.

Simon Schama

CricketKnowRepairWriteStudyTwo

We all know what we don't like about our bodies.

Trinny Woodall

KnowLikeOurAboutBodies

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

Robert D. Kaplan

KnowledgeHistoryProblemsThink

Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.

Robert Dale Owen

SafetyHandsNationPropertyShould

I don't have an album cover with me on a broomstick.

Tom Felton

MeCoverAlbumAlbum Cover

I thought the '60s was the most exciting time and the most vital music, and we were really together as one mind then. Then afterwards, the songs and the bad drugs, that took its toll.

Mickey Hart

MusicTimeTogetherMindThought

I involve myself in an organisation called Tear Fund.

Cliff Richard

MyselfInvolveTearFund

I grew up in Wisconsin. It's not like growing up in New York or L.A., where you know somebody's cousin who does this. It was in the back of my mind, but I would never say that I wanted to be an actor, but as I look back, I was in every play I could possibly be in.

Bradley Whitford

New YorkMindGrowing UpYouLook

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