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" First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work. "
James McBride
Tool
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Know
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" Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning. "
James McBride
Me
Meaning
Out
" When you're interviewing someone, even your mother - you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and the person but you also have to find what's the best way to get the information from that person. "
James McBride
Best
Find
Mother
" I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise. "
James McBride
Wish
Color
Questions
" When you glorify violence, then it comes back to bite you. "
James McBride
You
Violence
Then
" As a journalist, the details always tell the story. "
James McBride
Journalist
Details
Always
" I just love music, and I love what music does for people. "
James McBride
I Love
People
Love
" People call him a terrorist, but you can use language to do many things and say many things about people, but John Brown was a hero. "
James McBride
Hero
You
Say
" I hate to sound blase about it, but literary status is not important to me. Being happy is important to me. "
James McBride
Hate
Me
Being Happy
" Every time I see something about the Wild West, I'm reminded that our version of history may not be what really happened. "
James McBride
West
See
I See
" I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford. "
James McBride
Ford
Headlights
Drive
" Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles. "
James McBride
Dreams
You
Your Dreams
" Be a member of the human race. Love somebody. Change the world. "
James McBride
World
Change The World
Change
" When you study history in American schools, very rarely is the name John Brown mentioned. We know who Kanye West is or Twyla Tharp or Shania Twain. "
James McBride
West
Know
History
" My family is my career. "
James McBride
Career
Family
" I'm proud of 'Miracle at St. Anna' and I loved it; there's no question in my mind it's as good as any movie that came out in 2007. "
James McBride
Out
Proud
Question
" The hard part about writing about a guy like John Brown is that he was so serious, and his cause was so serious, that most of what's been written about him is really serious and, in my opinion, a little bit boring. "
James McBride
Serious
Boring
Hard
" The starting point of all great jazz has got to be format, a language that you can work within that, in some ways, is much tighter than the blues or even gospel. It's all working towards the same destination - the difference being that Miles Davis flew there, and I'm still taking the subway. "
James McBride
Great
You
Work
" People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home. "
James McBride
You
Over
Home
" When the great jazz and blues clubs closed - joints where the cash register rang loudly and there wasn't ESPN on TV over the bandstand, and people smoked cigarettes and drank whiskey and hollered 'Play on!' - When those places closed, I was pretty much done. "
James McBride
People
Great
Blues
" The black church will accept anybody. "
James McBride
Black
Church
Accept
" Caring is beyond race. Either people care about you, or they don't. "
James McBride
You
Beyond
Caring
" I'm not interested in food. It's just fuel. "
James McBride
Just
Food
Fuel
" If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue. "
James McBride
Will
You
Tissue
" Be kind to the living. "
James McBride
Living
Be Kind
Kind