Christopher Guest Quotes

I was never in an improv group. But when I went to school, we would do it all day long with friends, not knowing what it was called.

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• Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.

  

  Banks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• For the first time I'm free to be myself.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Time
  • Free
  • Myself

• If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Men
  • Society
  • Freedom

• I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Time
  • Always
  • Matter

• What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.

  

  Nancy Carell
  • Family
  • Small
  • Breakfast

• When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • Child
  • My Life

• No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • May
  • She
  • Society

• I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Trying
  • Death
  • Medical

• I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Books
  • Writer
  • Favourite

• I've always wanted to do a lot of things.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Always
  • Things
  • Wanted

• You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

  

  Ed Harris
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Often

• I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Up
  • Remember
  • House

• Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.

  

  Irving Azoff
  • Life
  • Me
  • Company

• Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

  

  Ralph Cudworth
  • Mind
  • Running
  • Like

• I had maybe heard 'The Times Are A-Changing' on the radio, but I had no idea who Dylan was. No idea.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Idea
  • Radio
  • Maybe

• Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American sovereignty and independence to global institutions like the World Trade Organization.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • American
  • Stop

• There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • You
  • Know

• Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Power
  • Strong

• These are the moments when the powerful mind or the forceful character feels the ferment of the times, when his thoughts quicken, and when he can inject into the uncertainties of others the creative ideas which will strengthen them with purpose. At such a moment the man who can direct others, in thought or in action, can remake the world.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • World
  • Mind
  • Character

• The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• Everybody knows that L.A. is known for its addiction to the single-passenger automobile, the gridlock, the congestion on the freeways.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • Single
  • Addiction

• Also, an area that interests me – and it will probably take years to state what I mean – is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Democracy
  • Period
  • State

• I get my gossip from 'Nashville' on ABC.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Gossip
  • Nashville
  • ABC

• I was never in an improv group. But when I went to school, we would do it all day long with friends, not knowing what it was called.

  

  Christopher Guest
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