Christopher Plummer Quotes
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Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
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We have a structural problem because you can simultaneously understand the medium to long-term risks of climate change and also come to the conclusion that it is in your short-term economic interest to invest in oil and gas. Which is why, you know, anybody who tells you that the market is going to fix this on its own is lying to you.
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Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.
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It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.
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Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
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I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and see two guys talking to each other, and I will just start playing both characters. I can't hear them, but I can see their mouths moving, so I'll just put words in their mouths.
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People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'
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The smart way to build a literary career is you create an identifiable product, then reliably produce that product so people know what they are going to get. That's the smart way to build a career, but not the fun way. Maybe you can think about being less successful and happier. That's an option, too.
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We want everybody to be bossed up.
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I actually feel like the phrase 'big in Japan' is not appropriate for me. The reason is that there are more people who sympathize with my practice in America than there are domestically in Japan.
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If China wants to spend $10 producing a product and sell it for a buck, who benefits from that? I think we do. I'm the free market guy. I think free markets work.
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I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.
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I'm kind of shy, to be honest. If I go to the pool or something, I keep my shirt on unless I'm getting in the water.
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I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town.
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Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not;I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.
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Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese.
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A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.
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Choir of Men: There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed. Choir of Women: And yet you are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily. (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)
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On some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found alive in their stomachs.
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I'm the most competitive person you'll ever meet.
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Thinking about women who can't have their own baby, even the first baby, I'm really lucky.
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Art, you know, art and fiction, especially in big books, you know, it takes a while.
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Black people have always been more than our pain. The joy is so much a part of how we have survived and thrived.
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Never forget your sense of humour.
