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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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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That's a big important deal, the way people see you from the stage. Once in a while, I'd ask people, 'How did you enjoy the show?' 'Hey, you looked great.' But how did I sound? That visual look is very important to people.
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Galleries needn't be exactly like White Columns purely because times are bad again. But the idea of this special space could - should - help shape what comes next.
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The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
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There will be a Led Zeppelin as long as there's a Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant. This isn't a nostalgia band playing the hits forever. If anything ever happened and somebody left - which I really can't see happening - I don't think we'd bother to carry on. The magic for me is as it is now.
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I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin is yellow and my religion is Unification Church. The ugliest things in this beautiful country of America are religious bigotry and racism.
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The love for the brand is immense. It gets a lot of affection from millions and millions of people.
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Think about all of the non-entrepreneurial advice and resources you need when building a company. You need lawyers, accountants, financial experts.
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Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.
