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James Frey Inspirational Quotes (108)

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What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.
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You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.
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When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fighting style was straight ahead. He took every shot thrown at him, and he kept punching back 'til he won. I honestly feel that's how I am. I take big shots from people. But I keep going.
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I say to myself if you believe deeply in your heart you must defy, and if you are willing to pay for your defiance, you must always do it, even though the pain may be much. Too many times in our lives we do not do it, and we pay even more.
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The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.
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...we got this gift of life and we got it one time and we gonna get hurt in it and be hurt going through it and the only thing that'll make that hurt better or hurt less is love.
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Every year, at 8:00 PM on the second Saturday of July, hundreds of people gather along a section of Los Angeles rail track to drop their pants and moon passing passenger trains.
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There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable.
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Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.
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I have a great amount of confidence and faith in my abilities to write. There are other areas of my life where I'm not as confident, and have not as much faith, but when it comes down to writing and working, I don't worry about it. I trust myself to get it right.
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It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway, critics claimed, was a genius. Was it his genius that drove him to work hard, or was it hard work that resulted in works of genius?
James N. Frey
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Dreams can come true there [Los Angeles]in ways impossible anywhere else, and they can get destroyed as well.
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I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really try to do is reinvent how a novel can be written.
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People call me all sorts of things. I don't even care what they call me.
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On the other couch a women sits with a young boy looking through a picture book about Babar the Elephant. When I find a magazine and I lean back to start reading it, I can see the women watching me out of the corner of her eye. She moves closer to the child and she leans over and kisses his forehead. I know why she does it and i don't blame her.
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Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something
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To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.
James N. Frey
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Everything I know and I am and I have seen felt done past present past now then before now seen felt done hurt felt focus into a something beyond words beyond beyond beyond and it speaks now and it says. Stay. Fight. Live. Take it.
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We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial intelligence.
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I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I leave it blank.
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Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.
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There are real issues that the president Donald Trump and particularly Steve Bannon, his political adviser, are pushing. It's a vision, a rather dark vision, of a 19th century world where great powers do transactional issues.
James Franklin Jeffrey
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I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.
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She made me feel better than I have ever felt, better than I imagined I could feel, and it scared me, it scared me to the point of paralysis.
James Frey
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