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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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 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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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
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Most Israelis have a sense, 'We just don't want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don't want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally' - not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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I always tell my students to complicate your characters: never make it easy for the reader. Nobody is ever one thing. That's what makes characters compelling.
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It’s a poor atom blaster that won’t point both ways.
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I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
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What we, as black people, need to do is we need to worry about our education.
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I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.
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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.
