Christopher Guest Quotes
All these movies are observational comedies. I see somebody, maybe a dry cleaner, and notice how they are. Maybe I'll decide to turn a person with those traits into a studio chief.
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I just want us to all have a good time and to party and enjoy this life, because it's too short. It's too short.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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I am a big music nerd.
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I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
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I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so much that they offered dual enrollment classes. So my senior year, I ended up taking college dance courses while I was in high school because I had good grades.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.
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I will never let money from anyone affect what I do.
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Social media give me the privilege of learning about more people than I could meet in my whole life. Taken together, the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot, though.
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… just as the limb gives assistance to the body, likewise the member of the community helps the community and reigns supreme.
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As far as I'm concerned we are all God That's the difference If you really think another guy is God he doesn't lock you up Funny about that.
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Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).
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Is he really dead?
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No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.
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Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.
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There is so little time for us all; I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many people as possible.
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The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.
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All these movies are observational comedies. I see somebody, maybe a dry cleaner, and notice how they are. Maybe I'll decide to turn a person with those traits into a studio chief.
