Christopher Guest Quotes
When my daughter played volleyball in school, they were the Wildcats. Well, there are about a million Wildcats. Why don't you come up with another name?
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
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But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.
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People take things so seriously.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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I don't get bothered by fans.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.
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Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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Each day the forces of evil and the forces of good enlist new recruits. Each day we personally make many decisions showing the cause we support. The final outcome is certain---the forces of righteousness will win. But what remains to be seen is where each of us personally, now and in the future, will stand in this battle---and how tall we will stand. Will we be true to our last days and fulfill our foreordained missions?
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I could never change the overall feel of my music. That's why people like me - I don't follow trends, and I don't follow crowds.
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Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.
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When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.
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When my daughter played volleyball in school, they were the Wildcats. Well, there are about a million Wildcats. Why don't you come up with another name?
