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James Buchan Quotes

Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Comfortable Addiction Oil Would

I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Experience People Find Person Try

What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.

Character Myself New Things Fun Me

The days of red carpet disasters are kind of over.

Red Kind Over Red Carpet Days

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.

Life Hope Past I Am My Life Kings

When I'm in the starting gate, it's just me and the hill.

Mikaela Shiffrin

Me Hill Starting Gate Just

I love anything to do with cooking, from watching the Food Network to reading recipe books by Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver and Levi Roots. My favourite types of cuisine are Asian and Caribbean, and I love cooking new recipes for my family.

Family Love Food Cooking Roots New

It takes me 10 minutes to get ready to go out, and that includes the shower.

Me Ready Go Out Shower Get

Prior to 'Pirates of the Caribbean' - the first one in 2003 - I had been essentially known within the confines of Hollywood as box office poison, you know what I'm saying? You know, I basically had built a career on 20 years of failures.

Saying You Career Know Hollywood

The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job.

Work Discipline Job Me Strong Sense

Given how majestically slim she always was, it's a little odd to admit that I can remember bellowing that Whitney Houston was The Heavyweight Champion of the World! on the MTV News floor back in the '90s.

World Champion Remember Back I Can

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

Christian Lous Lange

Technology Dangerous Master Servant

Nobody can quantify for you what's the impact of eating fiber every day, for instance. We can say we think it's good. But some people might say 'Oh, it reduces your risk of colon cancer by 20%, some people might say it reduces your risk by 25%.'

You Information Want Why Genetic

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