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James A. Michener Quotes

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

James A. Michener

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 3, 1907 - October 16, 1997

Topics

Love Words Writing Emotions Swing

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

Prison Year Guy Costs Million Bucks

Everybody can get it. I'm here; I want to fight everyone.

Fight Want Everyone Here Get

At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.

Mercedes McCambridge

Time Awards Up Everybody Janitor

The process of composing the film score for each movie is completely different. They all have their own personality and their own completely different life, but there's never been a formula. Each time, it's a new thing.

Life Time Personality Process New

'The War in the Air' describes the destruction of Manhattan by air attack.

War Air Destruction Manhattan Attack

With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy.

Technology Security Privacy Airport

I would never use prosthetics. I don't like sticking things on. I don't really like wearing wigs, either.

Never Things Would Like Wigs Either

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Louis D. Brandeis

Men Understanding Meaning Liberty

When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game.

Game Face Feel Media You Now

If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That's what keeps the creativity alive.

Christian Louboutin

Life Family Motto Creativity Friends

If Jesus is not enough to motivate you to godly living, you don't know Jesus.

Enough You Know Living Motivate

Whatever it takes, the job of the director is to be the leader and to get your actors where they need to go. That's a philosophy that I have.

Leader Job Philosophy Go Need Get

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