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James Jones Quotes

I don't think people like to read about themselves or about others as they really are. It would be too horrifying.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: November 6, 1921 - May 9, 1977

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People Think Others Would Like Read

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

Me Year Alive Know Strange Shy

But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20.

Conflict Remember I Can Australia Us

People talk to me about celebrities all the time and which ones do I admire, and it's so hard because you can't tell who's doing it for themselves and who hired a stylist.

Michael Bastian

Time People Me Doing You Talk

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

Freedom Mind Enough Choice My Own

See, I have to do my best because I am not as glamorous or as well-equipped like a Beyonce Knowles or Michael Jackson, where their band members are close to 100-150 people. They even have great equipment which is flown along with the artists. They have a budget of around $5 million pumped in to make their concerts a hit.

Great Best I Am People Budget See

I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.

Always Fascinated Neat Nicknames

The first record was basically a quick, fast record. The second record, we were going for more of a poppier sound - like a heavy pop sound. For 'Rocket to Russia,' we'd sort of reached our pinnacle. We'd gotten really good at what we were doing, so that's like my favorite record - that's a really good record. It's just great from beginning to end.

Good Great Beginning End Doing Fast

Television became defensible - and, frankly, worshipped - because the shows started to be so carefully structured, so attentive to language, and so visually interesting that they suddenly caught people's eye.

People Eye Language Interesting

When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.

Work People You Watch Sit Get

As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.

Christopher Moore

Me Richard Eddie Richard Pryor Pryor

I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.

Progress I Am Run Why Open Honest

The overwhelming number of Democrats... think our trade policy has gone in the wrong direction. They think that our trade policy encourages companies to leave the country. They think our trade policy has caused more and more businesses to outsource.

Direction Think Country Wrong More

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