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.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Work
  • Economics

• He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Kind
  • Learn
  • Be kind

• 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.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Want
  • Cooking
  • Camera

• I myself am a former commando fighter.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Myself
  • Fighter
  • Am

• 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.'

  

  Randa Haines
  • God
  • Children
  • Me

• I've only dressed in drag three or four times.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Times
  • Three
  • Dressed

• I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.

  

  Jack Scalia
  • Remember
  • War
  • Fear

• 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.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• 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.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Long
  • Career

• 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.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • War
  • Democracy
  • Losing

• As we've learned in 1941, national emergencies can create strange bedfellows.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Create
  • Learned
  • Strange

• Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Men
  • Power
  • Change

• The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Fear
  • Hell
  • Too Much

• Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Way
  • Poetry
  • Painting

• I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Nature
  • Beginning
  • Effort

• In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Family
  • Born
  • Far

• I just do these 'Sleep' type tracks when the situation presents itself. I never set out to do them, like wait all day until I'm really tired or something. Gotta come natural.

  

  Aaron Funk
  • Day
  • Sleep
  • Tired

• In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Luck
  • Tragedy
  • Few

• The hardest part is always the middle of anything because at that point, on some unconscious level, you have to figure out what it's about and why you're doing it and what it means. You don't know that in the beginning.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Why
  • Mean
  • Beginning

• I am fearless when I think I'm alone.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Thinking
  • Alone
  • Fearless

• Music has to change. I don't want to stay the same forever.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Change
  • Forever

• My dad played a character on the radio called 'Parkyakarkus.' A Greek-dialect comedian. He did Friars' roasts and wrote material and made people laugh that way. But he wrote his own shows with other writers.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • People
  • Character
  • Dad

• Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • Night