Christopher Guest Quotes
The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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Hannity-'I am a believer. I believe in a creator.' Hitchens-'And that's where it stops, or you think this creator cares about you too?'
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What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.
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Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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My days are filled with writing, reading, and being a mom. Some days, I get to visit schools around the country and talk about what it's like to be a writer. I often feel like I'm pretending, because it's still hard for me to believe it when I see someone holding a book that I've written.
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The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.
