Christopher Guest Quotes
I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.
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And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
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There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach.
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Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
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In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.
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All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
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I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.
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If I have any complaints about my youth... one is that many well-meaning adults lied to me. Not spiteful lies with malicious intent but lies designed to prevent emotional and psychological pain - lies told by the people who cared about me most: my parents, teachers, relatives.
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A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.
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You do not need to go to journalism school if you want to work in the fashion industry. I think high schools condition you to think this way: If you want to be a fashion editor, go to fashion school. If you want to be a writer, you should study journalism. I think that the best school in life is experience.
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When I started working, women were working at 59 cents to the dollar. We got a raise, but it's still unfair. We're still 16 percent of Congress, even though we're 51 percent of the population. We're a low percentage of our CEOs. We're a low percentage of boards and being part of boards.
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There are worse things than being thought a Republican.
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I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation.
