Christopher Buckley Quotes
A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.
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My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'
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Laughter made you live better and longer.
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I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.
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All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
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I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.
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When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.
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When I became governor, I vowed to restore the public's trust.
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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I think you have to go deep into the bag of tricks, so to speak, to try and slow down the quarterback.
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The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.
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This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.
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Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.
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As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.
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There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.
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All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
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A conflict is to be characterized psychologically as a situation in which oppositely directed, simultaneously acting forces of approximately equal strength work upon the individual.
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It was one of the greatest moments in sports for me.
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The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.
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I am an old school sort of syndicated cartoon watcher. I'm a big fan of Voltron, too.
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A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.
