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James Buchan Quotes

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: June 11, 1954

Topics

World Doubt Fall Will More Own

I was a little chubby kid that no girls ever talked to. I had little chance of becoming an internationally known rock star. Music was my escape and my belief system.

Music Chance Rock Star Escape Rock

The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that.

War Poetry Me Feel Vietnam War Made

I learned how to tell stories with Jay-Z on 'City Is Mine.' I learned how to film and choreograph dancing on 'Can I Get A...,' and I got to kind of be a documentary filmmaker with 'Hard Knock Life.'

Life City Kind Hard Dancing Tell

When checking in at an airport, no matter how rude the check-in person is to you, always smile and be nice because you don't know what kind of day they've had. You are going on holiday and they're stuck wherever they are. Be nice to them because they can re-route your baggage to wherever they feel like.

Smile Day Feel You Holiday Person

Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.

Today Language Place Say Nothing

Because I don't produce insulin, I have to put insulin into my body, which means that I have a pen with a needle on it. I have it with me. You have to stick it in your thigh, or your arm - a lot of different spots you can put it.

Me You Pen Body Stick Different

It's important to take time for your spouse and nurture the relationship.

Christina Aguilera

Relationship Time Important Nurture

I'll be willing to do things that politicians won't do. Because I don't care who I upset.

Care Upset Politicians Things Who

Everybody can be desirable if they take care of themselves.

Care Take Care Take Everybody

My first super-worn-out tapes were Michael Jackson's 'Bad' and the soundtrack to 'Dirty Dancing.' The soundtrack to 'Dirty Dancing' is actually really phenomenal.

Bad Dirty First Dancing Soundtrack

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

History Me You Seriously First

'Battleship' is not a film that Francois Truffaut would have made. Nor would any of those other namby-pamby European directors. Nope, this picture eschews that Continental obsession with small stories, set in quaint towns filled with pockmarked folk doing their banal things.

Small Picture Doing Obsession Film

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