John Buchan Quotes
The Kirk of Scotland as at present guidit … is a kind o' Papery wi' fifty Papes instead o' ane.
Quotes to Explore
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
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It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
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Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.
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When I was doing fringe theatre, my ambition was to do repertory. When I got to rep it was to do national theatre; then it was t,o get a couple of parts in television. I never had this great desire to overreach myself. I was too busy enjoying acting. I was just obsessed with it.
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Too sick and freaked out not to want a bullet for every passer by, too sick and freaked out to breathe, too sick and freaked out to care, too sick and freaked out to think of anything but the annihilation of my mind and denial of my life. So sick and freaked out that I think everyone is my friend.
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You're guilty until proven innocent. Perception is reality, that's the way that it is in this world.
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The Kirk of Scotland as at present guidit … is a kind o' Papery wi' fifty Papes instead o' ane.
