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James Baldwin Quotes

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 2, 1924 - December 1, 1987

Topics

Father Son Relationship Biology Sons

I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.

Culture Acceptance Religion Pain

'Obvious Child,' the short, had a nice life online and a great festival run, but the short and the feature still stand apart from everything else I've done. I play a woman who you might meet in life. My other work is much more heightened.

Life Work Great Woman Child Stand

I didn't realize it at first, but the Doctor is in the same spirit as those natural 'outsider' characters 'Star Trek' series have, like Spock and Data.

Doctor Data Spirit Realize First

My father was a low-budget monster movie maker, so he made classics like 'The Crater Lake Monster.' There were always creatures around. And my dad was a huge fan of Ray Harryhausen. One of our neighbors, who went on to win several Academy Awards, was close friends with my dad. His name is Phil Tippett.

Robert Stromberg

Father Win Name Friends Lake Awards

Many people thought that, given my knowledge of the egg, I should analyse embryonic mutants.

Knowledge People Thought Egg Should

When I was 14, I remember wanting a Coach bag, and my mother couldn't afford it. I decided at that age that I was going to grow up and get a job so that I could buy as many handbags as I wanted. And no one was ever going to stop me.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

Mother Age Job Me Grow Bag

My character on 'I'm In the Band,' Derek Jupiter of Iron Weasel, is definitely one of the crazier ones. That's completely on the other end of the spectrum. There's absolutely nothing like Derek any shape or form. I'm having so much fun playing this egotistical, '80s-era rockstar - everything he does is from the point-of-view of a rockstar.

Steve Valentine

Character Fun End Nothing Band Iron

I haven't had a lot of comedy come my way as a performer.

Tommy Lee Jones

Comedy Way Come Lot Performer Had

There is certainly greatness in the '60s generation. They changed our attitudes about race in America, which was long overdue. They didn't just stand up and salute when told to go to war. Women finally began to realize a more equal place in our society.

Women Greatness War Society Stand Up

People say that when you get to a certain age that you start to mellow. I have no idea what these people are talking about.

Age People Start Talking You Say

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

Perception Twisted Created Quickly

I was in the video for Cyndi Lauper's 'Sally's Pigeons' when I first started acting.

Acting First Started Pigeons Video

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