Christopher Buckley Quotes
The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.
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In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
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Some days, just occasionally, when I've had just one too many chickpeas, drizzles of olive oil or chunks of feta, I crave a return to the sushi-filled joints of Tokyo.
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Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.
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There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
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Basically, me and Ed Sheeran are kind of Twitter friends – well, I say that. He probably just thinks I'm weird.
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I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.
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I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don't want to be competing in any way.
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Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
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Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.
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When you're an entertainer, it's hard not to compare yourself with the next person's success. But you have to trust your own journey and your strengths and believe in yourself. I think that's the best place to start.
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When I won Miss World, I wasn't even 18, and I only remember, like, I thought of it as a day in the races or something. It didn't feel like it was Miss World of the Millennium Year, the change of the century. I didn't understand the magnitude of it for at least a couple of years.
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When I gave birth to my son, something happened. It is a huge thing for a woman: a whole set of emotions you never had before arrives, and a love you never had before in your life is now on tap.
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If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.
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You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him!
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The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.
