Christopher Guest Quotes
I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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This is the power of fashion: the capability of allowing people to express themselves.
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Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may not be what we expect or come to us when we want or in the way we anticipate.
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There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
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I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.
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I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian.
