Christopher Guest Quotes
It's difficult to articulate how I know it's the right actor, but I do. It's instinct. Intuition.
Quotes to Explore
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Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.
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I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.
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We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.
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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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I'm not a very typical singer.
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In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon.
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There is an old saying that you're a product of your environment. Parents can only do so much when eight hours of the day is spent at school. As parents, we try to teach our kids to be respectful to others and teach them old values, but a lot of it is down to the schools.
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They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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What I do when speaking in public is trying to do it as best as possible and trying to make everybody comfortable with my words. Sometimes getting this is very difficult, but I try my best.
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Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.
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At the end of the day, the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott had to be converted into the 1964 Civil Rights Act. We don't want politicians who've gotta be coaxed, cajoled and protested. We want them on our side from the beginning.
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Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.
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I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world.
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It's difficult to articulate how I know it's the right actor, but I do. It's instinct. Intuition.
