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 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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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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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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Oh, If I should die tonightOh baby, though it be far before my timeI won't die blue, sugar yeah'Cause I've known you.
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We do not want a religion that deceives us for our own good.
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If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.
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The truth is, I was D.J.-ing on my college radio station in 1987, and I was called 'Mad Marj.'
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I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'
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From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth.
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Sitcoms are like summer stock. You put it up in three days, and then you do it in front of an audience, so it's a really great transition from theatre into camera work.
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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.
