Bill Buford Quotes
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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I used to walk in the Bowery in the early 1980s, and it was not safe. It went from this to Disneyland under Giuliani and Bloomberg. This is now one of the best-run big cities in the world.
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Beauty has a lot to do with character.
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Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.
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They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.
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I don't like feeling full when I start a game, so that's why I have a bigger meal in morning or four hours before game.
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I just believe people should know what they're eating.
