James Buchan Quotes
Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.
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For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.
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I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.
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In the big picture, life has a gap in it. It just does. You don't go crazy trying to fill it.
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Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.
