Christopher Buckley Quotes
I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life.
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I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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Women drive box office.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they were going to remake it, I was like, 'This is not going to work. I'm going to completely veto this show. I am not going to watch this show.' But now, I love it.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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It's always good to have other people who you can lean on and pick you up when you're down and vice versa.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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Why pamper life's complexity when the leather runs smooth on the passenger's seat?
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I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.
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I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life.
