James Buchan Quotes
The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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The simple things in life make me very happy.
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Even in the lives of fishes, sensation is seldom a matter of one thing or another. Senses overlap. The lines between them often tend to be blurred, and the best that we can manage, by way of description from the outside, is to say that the senses of fishes appear to dominate one at a time.
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While universal suffrage remains an ideal yet to be attained, if you're lucky enough to be able to vote, don't let that privilege go to waste.
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No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.
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The country has moved off track. The people in Washington don't have the hard-nosed business experience needed to get the economy up and running.
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I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.
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The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten.
