Christopher Guest Quotes
I don't know if I'd mastered that documentary format, but I wanted to move on from it.
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An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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One thing that the audience, and perhaps critics, aren't aware of is that, especially in a film like 'Moonlight,' you always shoot a lot more footage than makes the cut of the film.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.
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We need to build opt-in society, outside the U.S., run by technology.
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Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
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Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
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In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on working missiles and launching them at their neighbors.
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Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.
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We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us.
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I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.
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How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?
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I have to stand up for myself... I learned something that I could and should stand up for myself, and he learned something, which was she will stand up for herself.
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When you work with somebody else, you automatically get a mixed voice. You hope it will benefit the story. But you don't know what the result will be.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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Things past recoveryAre hardly cured with exclamations.
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Practitioners of SI do not feel ourselves to be therapists. The gravitational field is the therapist. What we do is prepare the body to receive the support from the gravitational field which gives a greater sense of well being.
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After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.
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I don't know if I'd mastered that documentary format, but I wanted to move on from it.
