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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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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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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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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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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History contains heroes, but no one is a hero entirely, and no one is a hero for very long.
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Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.
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My brother is an agent, so he is in the business. Is he my agent? No, no, no. That would never work.
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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.
