Christopher Guest Quotes
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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Everyone takes a bad selfie - the first thing is to know that.
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High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
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I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.
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All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.
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The tar sands boom has become the world's largest energy project, the world's largest construction project, and the world's largest capital project.
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I launched NARS with 12 shades of lipsticks, and many, many launches later, I'm still most proud of our lipsticks.
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In the words of Michael Jackson: I'm a lover, not a fighter.
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I'm fascinated by real-time behavior.
