Christopher Buckley Quotes

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

Christopher Buckley

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YouNewWriteBottleJustIdea

Levis are my go-to. Plain crew necks and jeans.

John Gourley

JeansCrewPlainNecks

The message of body acceptance built on Jennifer Lawrence's soundbites only empowers those who are willing to ignore the fact that her statements reinforce our current cultural views rather than subverting them.

Jennifer Armintrout

AcceptanceIgnoreBodyHerWilling

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.

Mehmet Oz

NatureFoodUsBecomingSacredToo

When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.

Johnny Cash

WorkMyselfWifeJustStudioDied

As actors, we want to choose somebody who has conflicts. I can't be always playing the girl next door. What's the challenge in that?

Sonam Kapoor

GirlChallengeDoorChooseWantWho

I hate the word 'feminine!' I mean, there is a woman and a man, and when I say 'woman,' it suggests all that is radiant, tender, fascinating, gentle, demoniac, exaggerated! 'Feminine' makes me think of somebody who is spindly and over-sweet - I don't like that!

Sonia Rykiel

HateWomanManMeThinkSay

I've spoken often of how the fantasy genre is able to, with the greatest freedom among all the genres, take a metaphor and make it real. But of course that's only the starting point.

Steven Erikson

FreedomFantasyRealStartingPoint

Your first projects aren't the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn - you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself.

Steve Wozniak

MoneyYourselfValueEffortWorld

I think there is a direct correlation between interest shown by a member of Congress on these projects and the progress that is made. I think it gives the Superfund effort some credibility, lets citizens know we are serious about these cleanups.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

ProgressEffortThinkSeriousKnow

UTC Aerospace Systems has a couple of million dollars of content on every single aircraft that gets delivered. That's the chutes, the electric system, rotors, etc.

Louis R. Chenevert

SingleContentSystemAerospace

I'm a fly fisherman. I make flies. They're imitations of insects at different stages in their development.

Christopher Guest

FlyDevelopmentInsectsDifferent

The only piece of advice I've ever given anybody is learn to write songs and write as many songs as you can. Because it's never gonna hurt, and when you run into that problem of, 'God, I don't know what I want to say,' or the opposite problem of, 'I know exactly what I want to say, but no one has written it,' then you can just go write it yourself.

Chris Young

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