Christopher Guest Quotes
I've been buying guitars since 1964, and you fool yourself into thinking it's the last one.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
Nastassja Kinski
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.
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Few things are as essential as education.
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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Let's put it this way: I would consider my skiing ability to be far superior to my skating ability. And, in fact, my 10-year-old grandson, who's a AAA squirt, can skate circles around me.
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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
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I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.
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It's nice to see that people in Middle America are really affected.
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I have always criticised violence in my speeches but the way the trouble in just two per cent of the area is blown up and used against us should be countered. Arundhati Roy paints Gujaratis as rapists and then goes scot-free by apologising. Isn't it an insult to Gujarat?
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When held up to the window pane, What fixed my baby stare? The glory of the glittering rain, And newness everywhere.
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The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.
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Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space. In The practicse of Everyday Life, Michel de Certeau writes, 'The act of walking is a process of appropriation of the topographical system on the part of the pedestrian; it is a special acting-out of the place...and it implies relations among differentiated positions.' I think this is a fancy way of saying that writing is one way of making the world our own, and that walking is another.
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I think the best way to listen to my music is through recording. I would love to be one of those artists where you can go into a coffee shop and watch people pass by and then my music is in their ears. Not necessarily a sensory deprivation thing, but that's cool too. Unfortunately in order to focus on nobody else, you would probably have to go into a dark room and just sit there and listen to it.
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I've been buying guitars since 1964, and you fool yourself into thinking it's the last one.
