Christopher Guest Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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Nothing recedes like progress.
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I will say that when I first came out to the States to work on 'Jericho,' that was the only time that I've ever been frightened about a job, because in America they tell stories over such a long time, and I was petrified that I'd get bored.
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While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.
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My mother and father have been fantastic help and a huge support for me. Like any other family, though, we have our moments, living and working together.
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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I love being with my family and just being a regular person.
