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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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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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.
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For the first time I'm free to be myself.
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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.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
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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.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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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.
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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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.
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I had maybe heard 'The Times Are A-Changing' on the radio, but I had no idea who Dylan was. No idea.
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Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American sovereignty and independence to global institutions like the World Trade Organization.
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There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.
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Being an actor is lot like being a dancer: you always have to go back to the bar and either work or take classes. Otherwise, you'll get rusty.
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When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and offence against the gods.
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I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh.
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Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.
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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.
