Christopher Plummer Quotes

I was always a happy kid. I'd play the piano fairly well. I did all sorts of things fairly well. But who the hell wants to be happy all the time? It's a miserable state to be in permanently. Can you imagine how dreary that would be?

Christopher Plummer

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• My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who was in the third grade at the time.

  

  Ed Emberley
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• It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
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• I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.

  

  Yami Gautam
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• One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

  

  Barbara Walters
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• I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
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• Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
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• I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• I've always wanted to create shoes that were positive and happy.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
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• Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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• If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.

  

  Valorie Curry
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• I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.

  

  Lana Wachowski
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• Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
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• I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I'm also a teenager. I don't get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.

  

  Nathan Kress
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• At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on the keyboard, I'm spending another hour trying to figure out some tiny detail I need answered.

  

  Gail Carriger
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• I guess life offers you opportunities to live your dream. We just have to accept what comes our way and live those moments completely. You will not get back this time again, so live every moment you get.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
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• If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
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• I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories.

  

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• I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.

  

  Jennie Garth
  • Life
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• Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady.

  

  Maya Rudolph
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• I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts with music, and then the person delivering it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.

  

  Questlove
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• You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!

  

  Donny Osmond
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• Dark Helmet: What's the matter Colonel Sandurz... chicken?!

  

  Mel Brooks
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• I was always a happy kid. I'd play the piano fairly well. I did all sorts of things fairly well. But who the hell wants to be happy all the time? It's a miserable state to be in permanently. Can you imagine how dreary that would be?

  

  Christopher Plummer
  • Time
  • Happy