John Buchan Quotes
Mrs. Brisbane-Brown was a relic, but only the unthinking would have called her a snob. For snobbishness implies some sense of insecurity, and she was perfectly secure.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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Food that's served at the table in a paper parcel always creates a remarkable culinary moment when opened, because the package is full of aromatic steam from the lightly cooked ingredients inside.
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I've had friends who've had depression or been on medication because their pituitary glands aren't giving out enough hormones - so I've been around a lot of people who've had problems like that. I've always been open to talk about that.
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Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.
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There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing. Ziggy Marley
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Mrs. Brisbane-Brown was a relic, but only the unthinking would have called her a snob. For snobbishness implies some sense of insecurity, and she was perfectly secure.
