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Doing a play, you have a little bit more time, obviously. You rehearse for a month before you get up in front of people. It's a totally different energy. With film, TV, you want to try to capture lightning-in-a-bottle moments. I don't try to rehearse as much with that stuff, because you want those sparks of something to come out, if they do.

~Christopher Abbott

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But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community.

~Christopher Alexander

Topics: Adapt Arise Because Cannot Changes Community Create Easily Fail Inevitably Life Master Natural Order Organic Plans Practice Rigid Too Totalitarian Unpredictable

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I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.

~Christopher Atkins

Topics: About Always Because Excellent Insecurities Lot Myself Something Supposed Think Wondered I Think

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History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.

~Christopher Bond

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I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Alone Because Become Being Being Alone Child Children Lot Only Only Child Suspect Time Way Writers

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I'd worked at the White House for two years, and I'd read a bunch of White House memoirs because everybody who works at the White House, even for five minutes, writes a memoir usually not less than 600 pages long - and never without the word 'power' in the title.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Because Bunch Even Everybody Five House Less Long Memoir Memoirs Minutes Never Pages Power Read Than Title Two White White House Who Without Word Worked Works Writes Years

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I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Because Deathbed Forgive Forgive Me Hope Lot Me People

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I think people assumed because of my last name that I was a real right-winger. And if you cared to look at my writing, you would be hard pressed to deduce that I'm an ideological right-winger.

~Christopher Buckley

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If you're a speech writer for a president, you don't really see all that much of him because there's so many layers between you and him. But with a vice president, it's different.

~Christopher Buckley

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I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

~Christopher Columbus

Topics: Am April Because Could Desire Discoveries Done Everything Examine Fifty Here Indeed Lord Make Our Our Lord Particularly Please Possible Return Which Years Your I Am

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