Christopher Guest Quotes
I don't read about myself, and I don't read any magazine that has anything to do with movies or show business.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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It seems like WikiLeaks has better information on Hillary Clinton than she does herself.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
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I've had all that you could ask for. The fat lady has sung, and there's a standing ovation.
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Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
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I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.
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I really love doing simple things. I'm surrounded by people all the time at work, so I want to have a normal life when I'm off duty: motherhood, food, and love!
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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There are a lot of parallels between the historical Henry VIII and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. There's an oscillation and extremity of emotion throughout his repertoire that lends itself beautifully to the nature of Henry VIII, definitely. He will push things to the limit, and yet remain in emotional control.
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Having haters is just a part of the business, and the more haters you have, the more people like you - that's how I view it, because I try to see the positive in things.
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I second guess everything I do musically, and I often could spend hours on, say, one snare sound.
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I don't read about myself, and I don't read any magazine that has anything to do with movies or show business.
