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Christopher Buckley Quotes

Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.

Christopher Buckley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Me Letters Write Over Years Driven

I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

Hope People Giving Dangerous Know

I just really try to stay focused on what the material is wanting to do. My basic assumption is that no one will ever listen to it anyway. It's fidelity to the material. That's my contract: It's me and the material. And if it connects with other people, I'm thrilled.

Stay Focused People Me Focused Try

I had come to college believing in a story that if you worked hard, the American dream was reachable.

Matthew Desmond

American Dream College Story American

I would be on dates with guys, and the radio would be on, and if the Moody Blues song came on I couldn't concentrate on the guy; I would go straight into the music.

Music Song Blues Go Moody Radio

There are so many books I love for different reasons. For superhero stuff, I always go back to Alan Moore's 'Watchmen' or his 'Swamp Thing' run. Those are my two favorites, and there are indie books that I really love, like Eddie Campbell's 'Alec' books and 'From Hell.'

Love Hell Back Go Run Always

We did a year of Uber in San Francisco before we went to a second city. You get those processes down, then you really get started.

Travis Kalanick

City Year You Down Started Get

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

Purpose Pressure Journalism Say Kind

The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy.

People Control Down Wall Street

I'm terribly sad about Farrah's passing. She was incredibly brave, and God will be welcoming her with open arms.

God Sad Brave Will She Open

I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.

Work Good Down Never Reason Turn

Sometimes I can think of so many ways of expressing myself that I feel I'm an old typewriter, and too many keys come forward at once - and I get jammed.

Myself Forward Think Feel I Can Old

I got scouted when I was 16, almost 17, and it was something that had never entered my thoughts. I never thought I could be a model. I was such a tomboy growing up, and I've never really been into makeup or anything like that, so it was really surprising, but I definitely saw it as an in for acting.

Anya Taylor-Joy

Thoughts Growing Up Makeup Thought

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