Christopher Buckley Quotes
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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Bring love with you every place you go.
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If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
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It's helpful to get feedback on your work, and I think you learn a lot from reading other people's work and giving them feedback.
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To be poet laureate is to try to spread the love and the accessibility of poetry to young people.
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It's hard if you start believing that you should be really that perfect fantasy ideal, that people start believing because of all of the retouching. You can delve into that fantasy world and play with it, but when you walk away, that's not you.
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We live - on a spinning planet in a world of spin.
