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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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.
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Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
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Bomb, bomb! Bomb, Iran!
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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.
