John Buchan Quotes
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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Being around lots of people drains me, and alone time is essential to my well-being.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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A roast is really an honor. If they picked me to be roasted, I'd be the most flattered I'd be in my life. If I could pick some people to roast, I'd pick my heroes, Don Rickles and Howard Stern. Those are the people I'd like to give some honor to.
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Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
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We are much better at writing code than haiku.
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The secret of life is to find out what one really wants.
