Christopher Guest Quotes
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
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All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.
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I have always despised people who thought they were better than others, and I made a promise to myself that I'd never turn into that kind of person. My family also helps to keep me grounded. Whenever I get a 'diva moment,' as they like to call it, they let me know it and say, 'Stop acting like a diva!' They're pretty good at it, too.
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The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.
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Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.
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I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.
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Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
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London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.
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I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember - there's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.
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I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!
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Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
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I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.
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The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
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Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.
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Positive general principles need always to be supplemented by negative, anecdotal censors. For, it hardly ever pays to alter a general mechanism to correct a particular bug.
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TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can use what bandwidth and why - and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast.
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Once a piece of writing gets to a moment where it's not going to get much better than it already is, marinate it. If you still like the piece, send it out and see what others think. If not, it's time to put it away and forget about it for a while.
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I'm married to the person I fell in love with.
