James Buchan Quotes
It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual grievances in Palestine, Kashmir, and in central and southern Iraq, and to help the region out of its economic backwardness.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.
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My philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I don't, I learn from the match and move on.
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I don't understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That's not gonna work out, you know? It's a waste of your time!
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For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.
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It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual grievances in Palestine, Kashmir, and in central and southern Iraq, and to help the region out of its economic backwardness.
