Christopher Monckton Quotes
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When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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I got a manager, and I thought, since I was going out on auditions, I should do this for a living. Then there was this moment on set when I realized I was having a lot of fun, and I really wanted to do this forever.
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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.
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With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
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Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
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Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.
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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
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I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.
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'The idea of the feudal system is that the people on the top take care of the needs of those on the bottom, but I have seldom seen it work that way,' Wicked said. 'Yeah,' I said, 'it's like trickle-down economics; it only works if the people at the top are really good, decent people. The system is only as good as the people in power.'
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I look back, and I know what I left behind in Lagarto when I pursued my own dream.
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I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am familiar with the music written for that instrument. I am also fond of the popular music of the 1930s because my future husband and I danced to it so many Saturday nights when we were in college.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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Working opposite Max Greenfield is the best job in the world. He's just incredible.
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Radiative transfer calculations I can do standing on my head.
