Christopher Lee Quotes
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I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.
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Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
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Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.
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It is a lot of responsibility. But I enjoy being a father. That's one of the best parts of my life. I feel like, man, that's one of the greatest things I've got going on, being a father.
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In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
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I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!
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Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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Everybody makes money for a living, but most of us actually do something that has a point, in addition to just making money. We examine and treat patients, we teach students, we draw up contracts and wills, we write for newspapers, magazines, and web sites, we clean floors, or we serve meals.
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I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.
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Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.
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Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.
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There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that.
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Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
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Part 2, Ch. 5
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We didn't get to see a lot of movies in my house growing up, so the first time I got to go to the movies - I think it was 'E.T.' - I was like, 'Oh my God, somebody else gets my imagination!'
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I don't think a lot of the younger players know the extent of my background.
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The story of the Alamo has touched many more people than one would think. So, I would like to pay my respects to those men on both sides of the walls in those months of February and March 1836.
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Friends and I used to play an invented parlor game called the Worst Records Never Made. The point was to hypothesize the most stunningly inappropriate albums we could imagine—pairings of artists and material so horrific that even the famously dunderheaded major labels would hardly consider making them. Most of our inspirations have been lost to memory, but the notion of discs like “Yodel with the Berlin Philharmonic,” “The Three Tenors Sing Gilbert and Sullivan,” and—my favorite—“The Chipmunks Present Your Favorite Spirituals” can still inspire what P. G. Wodehouse used to call “the raised eyebrow.
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Religions . . . seem to avoid mountain passes.
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It's not necessarily size that matters, it's how fast you move that implement.
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I like gettin' old.
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Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.
