John Buford Quotes
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
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We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I'm always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that.
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When I'm at home, I just run all the time, you know; I get up, and I go pretty much four days a week outdoors. I go in the canyons around L.A., Malibu - just around L.A. there's a lot of different spots.
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It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.
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'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
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I never felt truly at home in Switzerland.
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I don't think that I could have survived in my family without a naughty sense of humor; yeah, absolutely. I think my brother and I both get our senses of humor from our parents. I mean, my mother was absolutely hilarious and foul. She had the most ridiculously off color sense of humor, so that was sort of what we grew up with.
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I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
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I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
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I'm pretty lucky to work on both 'CSI: NY' and 'Supernatural.' Not bad gigs!
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A social system is a mode of organization of action elements relative to the persistence or ordered processes of change of the interactive patterns of a plurality of individual actors.
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It’s a poor atom blaster that won’t point both ways.
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I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences.
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I myself have proved it to be of no small use, when in bed in the dark, to recall in fancy the external details of forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by subtle speculation; and this is certainly an admirable exercise, and useful for impressing things on the memory.
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My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.
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If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.
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As I continue to teach, I have more to offer my students, and as I continue to teach, I have more to learn from my students. I do know some writers who feel very drained when they leave the classroom, and for me this would be a sign that maybe it's time to take a break or refocus because I always leave the classroom even more excited than I was when I walked in.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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I wanted to be a lawyer. I realized I don't really want to be a lawyer. I want to play a lawyer. Thank God I figured that out.
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I am disgusted and worn out with the system that seems to prevail.
