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James McBride Quotes

We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class men with better dreams for their children. We just wore them out.

James McBride

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Family Father Dreams Children Men

The mistake, if I made one, in the late 1980s, was thinking I needed to change my game.

John McEnroe

Change Mistake Game Thinking Late

My life is just my life. When you're living it, it's just normal.

Suki Waterhouse

Life My Life You Living Normal Just

Like a lot of kids, you kind of think baseball's boring - that's the perception.

Tony Gwynn

Baseball Perception Think You Boring

My father would go shopping, and he was supposed to buy loo roll or something, but he'd always come back with some fish or shellfish. And we've always had fresh vegetables from the garden. He is a massively keen gardener, so he grew all our tomatoes, artichokes, asparagus - whenever he wasn't working, he was in the garden.

Tom Parker Bowles

Father Shopping Fish Back Vegetables

I'm no fan of Sarkozy, but I support a ban on face veils because they erase women from society and are promoted by an ultra-conservative ideology that equates piety with the disappearance of women.

Mona Eltahawy

Women Support Society Face Erase

Children's literature is as valid an art form as any other.

Lloyd Alexander

Children Art Literature Other Form

I always saw my role as getting LGBT to support the immigrant rights movement - which they did - and getting Latino organizations to support the women's movement, for reproductive rights. So that's kind of the work that I've always been doing.

Dolores Huerta

Work Women Support Doing Kind

In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.

David Yates

World Big Bounce Fantastic Between

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

Chaz Bono

Life My Life Transition React Afraid

For eight-and-a-half years, I was just watching movies, and just staying in bed and just eating food and just, you know, being just miserable.

Corey Haim

Food Eating You Bed Know Movies

I've had some great times with actresses, but that's in a movie.

Clive Owen

Great Some Movie Had Times

It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.

Audrey Tautou

People Looking Feel You Street Like