A. J. Buckley Quotes
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.
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Many times, I was told what to lead with on MSNBC. Many times, I was told what I was not going to do.
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'Concierge' comes from the Latin for 'slave.'
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It's about being true to my artistry, which I've been doing. It's super important to do smart films.
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To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to surrendor the movements of one's soul to the unknown complexities of another's. A willingness, not simply to be moved, but to be remade.
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I was never really good in school.
