Christopher Buckley Quotes
If the question is, 'Do I wish I made thirty million dollars a year,' the answer is, 'You bet.' If the question is, 'Do I wish I could write like Tom Clancy,' the answer must remain, 'No.'
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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The Kapoor surname has legend, a passion for acting, respect and love attached to it. And I am very proud of that.
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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.
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The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
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I believe passion is the sword of love that pierces through the wall of fears that hold us back.
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There's no question to my mind that saving our civilization and many other species is more important than our ability to do ground-based astronomy for a few decades.
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I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.
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If you wish to be a writer, write.
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If the question is, 'Do I wish I made thirty million dollars a year,' the answer is, 'You bet.' If the question is, 'Do I wish I could write like Tom Clancy,' the answer must remain, 'No.'
