Christopher Guest Quotes
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The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
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The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
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When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.
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It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
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Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office.
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I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.
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For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one?
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Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
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There isn't a country I ain't touch in Africa. I just came back from South of France, I toured China, Japan, wherever you name, 60,000 people come out to see Fat Joe.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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People tend to think they know you when you come into their televisions every week. They think you are different than who you are. Don't believe everything you hear.
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I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.
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Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'
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The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.
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The first 20 years had such a profound effect on me, I spent the next 20 dealing with them.
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As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.
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But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary. In such states of mind the most incredulous person has a private leaning towards miracle: impossible to conceive how our wish could be fulfilled, still - very wonderful things have happened!
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People ask me, 'What's your next film?' And I never know.
