Mr. Bush sticks to the script no matter what, and is regularly applauded for it.
It's not about Nigel Lawson, or pantomime-villain deniers: they will stick to their script no matter what, and sounded just as daft before the great deluge of 2014 as they have in the midst of it.
Not because you want to, of course you don't, but because, in the end, you are a jobbing actor who gets paid to follow the script, no matter how debauched.
The movement that began in Tunisia in December 2010, swept Mubarak from office in Egypt a month later, set Bahrain on fire, deposed Gaddafi and provoked Assad into a murderous onslaught on his own people, was not in the US State Department's script – no matter how many times supporters of these dictatorships claim it.
Despite what it says on the Partnership card website and in the customer service telephone script, this matter is far from resolved, and anyone who has experienced a problem with their direct debit should persist in contacting customer services and speaking to someone.
Viewing life as inherently meaningful and literally unlimited in potential, on the other hand, requires new ways of thinking and responsible action to deal in a positive way with the changes in our life's "script," no matter how disappointing or hurtful they may actually or appear to be.
His scripts, no matter how sensational their subjects, have been filled with the sort of banalities the average writer would delete as soon as they sprang to mind.
Throughout his 60s and 70s, more or less content with his middlebrow reputation ("I straddle the chasm between Jeffrey Archer and Salman Rushdie"), he continued to write fiction, feature articles and scripts, no matter what holiday locale or domestic distraction he found himself in.
Every one of these scripts, no matter how deeply trivial its plot or revolting its message, has been scanned by x-ray eyes for the slightest error in a date, in the acoustic level of the sound, in such vital aesthetics as having a man who comes into a room with a felt hat leave with the same quota.
I imagined my husband and I with our lines written on a piece of paper, each standing on opposite sides on a stage on Broadway, reading off the same old scripts no matter what was going on.
