Christopher Guest Quotes
I'm a fly fisherman. I make flies. They're imitations of insects at different stages in their development.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I was one of two girls accepted that year. This was September 1969 - well, that would have been 1970 - into the School Of Languages And Linguistics in Georgetown.
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I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.
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I was shying away from acting for the longest time - because of having such big shoes to fill.
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Land ownership has never been a problem. People have access to land. The peasants cannot complain about land ownership.
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All of the Chinese people, the Asian people say, "Oh Yao Ming, you are all the Chinese, all of Asia's hopes." That's a lot of pressure. I'm just a basketball player.
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You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
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I'm a fly fisherman. I make flies. They're imitations of insects at different stages in their development.
