John Buchan Quotes
This crowded world of Space was perfectly real to him. How he had got to it I do not know. Perhaps his mind, dwelling constantly on the problem, had unsealed some atrophied cell and restored the old instinct. Anyhow, he was living his daily life with a foot in each world.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
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When I feel my blood sugar getting off, I drink a glass of kale juice. It's so disgusting you don't want to eat anything!
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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When I read the script and saw the jazz music setting, and when I read the name of the filmmaker was Damien Chazelle, I immediately got this mental image of Antoine Fuqua.
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I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could.
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
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If you have an opportunity to reach people on a broad scale, it's not enough to just entertain people. You have to take responsibility. You has to do something substantial. Otherwise you're squandering what you have.
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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I'm not really the sex symbol type.
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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'
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I love all motor sports at the top level.
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I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.
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The Bitchun Society had all but done away with any sort of dull, repetitious labor, and what remained-tending bar, mopping toilets-commanded Whuffie aplenty and a life of leisure in your off-hours.
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Those who have known the quality of my work and the many public statements I have made over the course of my life must know that I am a strong supporter of Women's Rights.
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This crowded world of Space was perfectly real to him. How he had got to it I do not know. Perhaps his mind, dwelling constantly on the problem, had unsealed some atrophied cell and restored the old instinct. Anyhow, he was living his daily life with a foot in each world.
