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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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 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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The United States never stopped conspiring against the Arab world, which holds the largest oil reserves on the planet.
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Something like 'Sex And The City' was insulting - women all clawing on to their youth when there's such ripe territory in honestly exploring women's lives as they get older.
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We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993...
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When love is a theory, it's safe, it's free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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Not till I was shut up to prayer and to the study of God's word by the loss of earthly joys sickness destroying the flavor of them all did I begin to penetrate the mystery that is learned under the cross. And wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ, and to know that I love Him this is all.
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I think girls from a young age know what they want, and boys kind of have to keep up and catch up to them. Even in kindergarten, girls are pretty much the ones that like the boy first and the boys are like, 'Oh, I want to play with my trucks.' They think it's not cool. I think girls are definitely more ahead than boys.
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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.
