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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At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.
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To destroy wonder and mystery, is to destroy the only elements that make existence tolerable.
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NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.
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I've always wanted to be a dad.
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I don't know if I'd mastered that documentary format, but I wanted to move on from it.
