Christopher Guest Quotes
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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Rich people don't like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don't go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
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I met Tyler Perry and we did 'House of Payne' and a movie. We've done a couple other films since then, but it all boils down to the work. I'm a work-a-holic, which is why I think that I've been successful. If you tell me no, I'll work even harder!
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
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I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English.
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I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.
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Some wonder whether some day we will arrive at a theory of everything and run out of new problems to solve - much as the effort to explore the earth ran out of new continents to explore.
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I think every writer is in search of the truth. We are trying to psychoanalyze ourselves.
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I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice.
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I go out every day. When I get depressed at the office, I go out, and as soon as I'm on the street and see people, I feel better. But I never go out with a preconceived idea. I let the street speak to me.
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We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers?
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You can pick almost any field, and there's going to be weird people.
