Edna Buchanan Quotes
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
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In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical labour in one particular line, but this is in order that the engine may bring us in a much larger return in another line.
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I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect for being one of the greats in hip-hop, and because of that, the fire never burned out. There's more and more of a need for me to succeed or take the legacy a step further, and that's what it is.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
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Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarrassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom, till too late, discover how I ought to act.
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The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
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As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.
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We wanted to take away his penetration and keep him out of the paint, and he hit his jumper.
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Tango is about feeling and sensitivity, otherwise you are just doing gymnastics. You can do all the steps but it has to have the feeling and sensitivity of authentic tango.
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Life is a death-defying experience.
