Bill Buford Quotes
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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No one person is an island.
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I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.
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And I wanted to do a movie Moonrise Kingdom about a childhood romance - a very powerful experience of childhood romance. About what it's like to just be blindsided, when you're in fifth grade or sixth grade, by these kinds of feelings. Along the way, I sort of mixed in some interest in "young adult fantasy" writing.
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When did Jimmy Stewart not play Jimmy Stewart? When did John Wayne not play John Wayne? But that's what we like about them. When you talk about acting, you really have to respond to somebody's personality.
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Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?
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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
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The reality of America is mass-market stupidity.
