Christopher Guest Quotes
I didn't go to film school. I had been an actor in movies, I had been in plays, and then I just sort of jumped into it.
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In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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I often felt that I didn't train and race enough team sprint to get it right. You need to know that you've got a place to have that continuity of results. Am I in? Am I out of this one? That's tough.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.
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When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.
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Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
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It's not very often that I like new bands.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
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There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.
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The first CD I ever bought was Gwen Stafani's first solo album. She was the light of my life when I was 8.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!
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It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
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There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private.
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I didn't go to film school. I had been an actor in movies, I had been in plays, and then I just sort of jumped into it.
