James Buchan Quotes

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.

James Buchan

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I was a Swedish guy who listened to Too Short.

Joel Kinnaman

ShortGuyWhoTooListenedSwedish

Success unshared is failure.

John Paul DeJoria

SuccessFailure

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

Jeanette Winterson

WomanHusbandArtistHelpful

Katherine Heigl was a movie star. I thought she was going to be one, and it was fun to watch this young actress getting better every day.

Tom Sizemore

DayFunThoughtBetterEvery Day

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

Robert Adams

ArtSocietyYouGotDefinedJeff

For me, acting has often been solitary. You're all together, and then boom, you're gone.

Mary Steenburgen

TogetherMeYouActingGoneBeen

I release my scoops strategically.

Mike Cernovich

ReleaseStrategically

There are definitely designers that I love, people I love to work with. And who they are as people matters. Are they good people? Do they treat their staff well? Do they treat my staff well? Are they young? Can I give them a boost? But when all of that is equal... is it cute?

Michelle Obama

WorkLoveGoodCutePeopleTreat

The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.

Michael Schenker

MusicGodBeautifulArtPeopleYou

I wanted to fulfill my dream of playing in the NFL.

Chris Borland

DreamPlayingNFLWantedFulfill

It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.

Christine Quinn

WomanNew YorkCityPersonNewAble

I try to construct each of my novels around one central theme - core tensions shared by the characters.

Chris Pavone

TryThemeCoreConstructAround

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