Buddy Wakefield Quotes
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
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Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.
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Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.
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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.
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I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old farm. I grew up with a lot of black people working in the fields, and it was during the Depression between 1930 and the war, so we were all poor - black and white.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands.
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I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.
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Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
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Every moment is a brand new baby, Baby. Every vow is a brave new voice.
