Christopher Plummer Quotes
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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Everybody knows the story of The Smiths. You can still go and see Morrissey.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.
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Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.
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And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
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I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
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I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.
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What I find interesting as a 40-year-old is the idea of trying to be a part of a pronounced, continuing independent culture. The basic tenet of America is that you rebel and then you get real.
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People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.
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I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.
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Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
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Kala was the youngest mate of a male called Tublat, meaning broken nose, and the child she had seen dashed to death was her first; for she was but nine or ten years old.
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A country, a style or an epoch are interesting only for the idea behind them.
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Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
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I went from such a testosterone-driven show to the exact opposite, because 'Friends With Better Lives' is run by the ladies. I imagine it's close to what being married feels like.
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They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed - I, too, am America.
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Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.
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I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.
