James Buchan Quotes
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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I don't have kids, but I know that you want them to follow their dreams, while at the same time, you don't want them to be sitting around, hoping that dream is just going to come. I'm sure that's hard to tell your kids.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.
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My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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Be as much troubled by unjust praises, as by unjust slanders.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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For a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.
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The dividing line between wish and need was never clear.
