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James Baldwin Quotes

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

James Baldwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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World Impossible Person Never Than

If you're reissuing something, it's important to have demos and everything else from that time that wasn't used.

Jim James

Time You Important Everything Used

Doing the acoustic at Carnegie is basically advised because electric music tends to get, let's just say, acoustically unsound.

Joe Bonamassa

Music Doing Say Because Get Just

There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case.

Maynard Webb

Work Family Success Sacrifice Sleep

I don't really have guilty pleasures - I like what I like. But I've seen a lot - a lot - of 'Taxicab Confessions.'

John Ross Bowie

Guilty Seen Pleasures Like Really

No one can travel your own road for you; you must travel it for yourself. My faith in this stems from my childhood. I grew up in a family with a system of religious beliefs handed down to me.

Amy Tan

Family Faith Childhood Travel Road

I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.

Tony Kushner

Live Health Happy Me Impossible You

I don't really use Facebook, because I find it a bit intrusive on your personal life.

Tom Odell

Life Find Personal Facebook Because

I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.

Mitch Leigh

Thought Army Up Being Given Had

There is always one thing that turns you into an icon, an iconic image: in my case, a catsuit. But the icon 40 years later doesn't really want to know because it's not relevant to me.

Diana Rigg

Me You Know Want Always Image

There's a fine line between artist and product. I don't think the industry purposely does it, but I think that's just the way they maneuver. You have to be careful that doesn't become your story, where you become a product, and your art is tarnished because you're just seen as a tool to make money.

Dawn Richard

Art Money Story Think You Artist

We stress out over things we can't control. So if something is a stressor, you can just simply take the power away from it by focusing on something else.

Christen Press

Power Stress Control You Over Out

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

Colin Powell

Work Tough Times Together People You