Christopher Plummer Quotes
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On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.
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Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the presidency in his own right and to pass his Great Society legislation through Congress.
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The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.
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Amazon is not a monopoly or a monopsony, and even if it were, that by itself isn't illegal.
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You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.
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You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don't trash talk you.
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I found that gloss paint suited me entirely, and its qualities still intrigue me. It's viscous and fluid and feels like a pool. It's highly reflective, which means there are layers of looking. You look at the picture, and you look at the surface, then you look at the reflection in the surface behind you, then you look at yourself.
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Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
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You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.
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I wasn't brought up with any religion, actually.
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Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
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What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now?
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I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.
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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
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I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read 'The Dark Half,' which taught me a word I have never forgotten: psychopomp. Now I have read '11/22/63.'
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I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.
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All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap so very high that grown-up hearts flutter in terror.
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But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it.
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Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.
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Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.
