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James Branch Cabell Quotes

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 14, 1879 - May 5, 1958

Topics

Live Best True Possible Optimist

The reader who likes my stories, I think they would see the violence on the surface, but I think they would also see a deeper violence - the one that's not as showy or as immediately arresting, but kind of the more unsolvable violence that lurks underneath.

Think Violence Kind More See Would

I don't have much experience, but the few times when I would go on a date with a girl - like when I was 12 - there was a lot of sharing, and a lot of talking, and a lot of asking how I am. They thought we were dating, and I was sort of hoping to meet their brothers.

Anderson Cooper

Girl Experience Dating I Am Thought

I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that we interact with and hold in our hands every day is super revolutionary.

Good Day Collaboration Hands Hold

Clearly, we need to have the very best advice and counsel on what actions can be taken to help lower the cost of gasoline.

Best Advice Help Need Clearly Cost

Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.

Integrity Fun Say Own Film Because

Poetry is a totally different art than film.

Art Poetry Film Different Than

I did my first interview in 1995 and was asked about my private life. I said, 'Why would I tell you? I don't see the logic in anyone knowing that about me. For whose sake? Nobody wins.'

Sidse Babett Knudsen

Life Me Logic You Nobody Said

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

Time Ahead Little Successful Your

The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists.

Day Night Want Joke Little Sell

For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care.

Sports People Care Hospital Get

Snoop Dogg is hilarious. T.I. is really funny. Who else? 50 Cent is hilarious. Jay-Z is funny. I've met him, but he's funny in interviews. He was funny when I saw him, too. Ludacris is funny. Everybody is. Rappers are funny, a lot of them.

Funny Him Saw Interviews Rappers He

I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2.

Unhappy Speed Three Movies Made

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