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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My parents were just really weird and protective about the music I listened to. Whenever I wanted to buy an album, they would have to buy it first and listen to it and let me know if I could have it.
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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 think it is helpful having a history other than playing music. We've toured a lot together, hung out a lot. So, we knew each other pretty well before we ever got together, which is important. You could probably call on the greatest studio musicians in the world and it doesn't mean they can work together.
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Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.
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I've done a lot of ensemble work, and I like that.
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What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers.
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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.
