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Christopher Buckley Quotes

I spent, whether consciously or unconsciously, most of my career trying to be something other than William F. Buckley's son.

Christopher Buckley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 28, 1952

Topics

Son Trying Career Something Most

I have a feeling that very soon I'm going to fail very, very big. I'm going to try something and everybody's going to be like, 'What was she thinking?'

Jessica Chastain

Thinking Feeling Try She Fail Big

I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.

Myself Food Believe Diet Being Any

One day, I was sitting in a movie theater, and I said, 'What the hell? I can do better than that.'

Melvin Van Peebles

Day Hell Better I Can Said Sitting

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

Day Green Thought Never Band Punk

It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.

Success People Interesting React How

I think intimacy is the last taboo in many ways.

Think Intimacy Last I Think Many

I had to embrace just basically writing and recording on my laptop. On long drives through the Rockies, I would take my laptop and mess around with ideas and make rough sketches of songs.

Ideas Writing Long Embrace Mess

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.

Black Born Detroit Neighborhood

The best governor in the world is the person who never really planned to be governor.

Best World Person Never Planned Who

I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn't have anything to prove.

Business Music Age Man Prove Old

When I got home from hospital, and I was in a wheelchair in a plaster body cast, an aeroplane flew over. And I thought to myself, 'Well, if I can't walk, then I might as well fly.' And I was lifted into the aeroplane for the first time. And when I took the controls of the aeroplane, I knew this was something I could do. I thought, 'I can fly.'

Janine Shepherd

Home Time Myself Walk Fly Thought

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

Janis Karpinski

Me Care Take Care Attention Soldiers

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