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If the question is, 'Do I wish I made thirty million dollars a year,' the answer is, 'You bet.' If the question is, 'Do I wish I could write like Tom Clancy,' the answer must remain, 'No.'

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Answer Bet Could Dollars Like Made Million Million Dollars Must Question Remain Thirty Tom Wish Write Year You I Wish

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I once spoke to 9,000 people, but they managed to fit them all into a structure that resembled a Zeppelin hangar, so it was a contained space in which whatever laughter I generated could ricochet and hang around for a bit, encouraging others to join in.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Around Bit Contained Could Encouraging Fit Hang Join Laughter Once Others People Space Spoke Structure Them Whatever Which Zeppelin

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The Republican Party once could lay claim to the mantle of being the fiscally responsible, or 'Daddy,' Party.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Being Claim Could Daddy Fiscally Lay Mantle Once Party Republican Republican Party Responsible

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These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

~Christopher Columbus

Topics: Arms Could Made Men People Subjected Unskilled Very Wished

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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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As a child marooned in a post-war South London backwater with no ready cash and a bafflingly dysfunctional family, I had to glean my amusement wherever I could.

~Christopher Fowler

Topics: Amusement Cash Child Could Dysfunctional Family Had London Post-War Ready South Wherever

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Not to make him blush, but any story illustrated by Mike Mignola does things that prose alone can't accomplish. The illustrations create mood and atmosphere, drawing the reader more deeply into the story than words could do on their own.

~Christopher Golden

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They sell these golf aids that attach to your knee and your head and are supposed to keep your swing correct. It's futile beyond belief. I've never bought any, but I could watch those ads for 24 hours straight. People with straight faces saying this thing will take strokes off your game - that's my peculiar obsession.

~Christopher Guest

Topics: Ads Aids Any Attach Belief Beyond Bought Correct Could Faces Futile Game Golf Head Hours Keep Knee Never Obsession Off Peculiar People Saying Sell Straight Strokes Supposed Swing Take Thing Those Watch Will Your 24 Hours

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There isn't much improvisation in film - there's virtually none. The people that theoretically could be good at this in a theater situation don't necessarily do this in a film in a way that will work, because it's much broader on a stage.

~Christopher Guest

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I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who's 38 who says, 'I could've played Major League Baseball, but I had this knee injury...' Yeah, probably not. It's a big thing with men and sports, where they think they could have touched that thing.

~Christopher Guest

Topics: Ages Baseball Big Big Thing Could Different Guy Had Injury Knee League Major Major League Men People Played Says Sports Talk Thing Think Touched Where Who Yeah

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