James Buchan Quotes

To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites.

James Buchan

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You don't have to be in love all the time, but you need to be surrounded by people you have a genuine connection with.

Joanna Coles

LoveTimePeopleYouConnection

There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time.

Jill Clayburgh

LifeTimeImaginationStoryYouHer

In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth.

John Caudwell

SuccessAmbitionWorthYouEarly

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

John Ruskin

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From a public perspective, the Grand National is the biggest race of all, and not to have won it yet is definitely a failure. But there's been a lot of jockeys every bit as good and better than me that haven't won it - John Francome, Peter Scudamore, Jonjo O'Neill, Charlie Swan, to name a few.

Tony McCoy

FailureGoodPerspectiveMeBetter

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

Michael Jordan

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Something inside of me tells me that being homosexual is probably wrong.

Milo Yiannopoulos

MeWrongInsideBeingSomething

As far as I'm concerned, as soon as you reach your goal, then that's the box ticked for me. I don't feel the need to repeat titles or repeat victories; as soon as I get the one, then I'm happy.

Lizzie Armitstead

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I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

Loretta Young

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I think that the most important thing for me is, how is the character that I would be reading for? Is it interesting? Is there stuff to do? Are there things that you can do with the character? How can you play it out? Just those kinds of things that are very important for an actor. Also, a good director and good dialogue.

Julia Garner

GoodCharacterMeReadingThinkYou

I try to create some stupid entertainment for really smart people that they don't feel too stupid watching. In 'Xanadu,' the biggest laugh was a reference to Achilles.

Douglas Carter Beane

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I debated between law school and divinity.

Cory Booker

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