Christopher Guest Quotes
People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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We just here to do our job.
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I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.
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There are a bunch of images that are thrown in our faces all the time about what we're supposed to look like at 14, 15, 16. It's confusing. I think every woman can identify with that struggle.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
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The thing about the NBA, any pro sport, is, guys don't know how to take care of their body.
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My main priority in any job is when is the soonest I can get back to the three people I love most in the world.
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Accountability is a two way street. We can't just make it easier for us to fire people; we must make it easier for us to hire people. It takes VA an average of 240 days to complete the hiring process for executives joining VA from outside government. We are losing talented people because it simply takes too long.
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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
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When I was little, my father was one of the biggest names in Hollywood. Suddenly - and how it happened to him was always a great mystery to me - he wasn't a star anymore; he was on the fringe. From the time I was 14, I was always conscious of a sense of worry, of terrific insecurity - agents, phony talk, the waits for the phone to ring.
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People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.
