Christopher Buckley Quotes
Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.
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The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
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I myself am a former commando fighter.
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I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'
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I've only dressed in drag three or four times.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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As we've learned in 1941, national emergencies can create strange bedfellows.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
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The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.
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The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.
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This next song is called 'Wolf Moon' crowd starts to cheer. Wait with cheering until you hear what the song's about. It's about a guy who turns into a werewolf when he engages in oral sex with a menstruating woman crowd cheers even louder, and Steele spreads out his arms. You wanna call me a pussy? You are what you eat.
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You'd think skiing wouldn't be strenuous - all you have to do, after all, is start at the top and let gravity pull you to the dessert bar in the lodge. But at those elevations, you'll find about as much oxygen as you'll find kindness from your children. It's like spending six hours holding your breath.
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Rock 'n' roll... but I also like sporting events a lot. I love Mike Piazza.
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Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.
