Bill Buxton Quotes
Sketches are social things. They are lonely outside the company of other sketches and related reference material. They are lonely if they are discarded as soon as they are done. And they definitely are happiest when everyone in the studio working on the project has spent time with them.
Quotes to Explore
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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I want to give my followers a positive message. I want to give those girls a positive message who have been forcefully married, who continue to sacrifice. I want to be an example for those people. That's my aim.
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I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.
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Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.
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Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional.
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He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'
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Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.
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The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
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In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.
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People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.
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I like to work.
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Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
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Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.
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I just talk a lot, that's the problem.
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I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.
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Home advantage is usually an advantage to the home team.
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Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
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I avoid seeing myself while I'm working on role so I won't see "me."
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Do less of what you're terrible at and more of what you're good at. I don't know if that sounds too simple, but it's been working for me.
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Sketches are social things. They are lonely outside the company of other sketches and related reference material. They are lonely if they are discarded as soon as they are done. And they definitely are happiest when everyone in the studio working on the project has spent time with them.
