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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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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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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The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'
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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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Eating by myself in my own apartment, single and alone again for the first time in many years, I should have felt, but did not feel, sad. Because I had taken the trouble to make myself a real dinner, I felt nurtured and cared for, if only by myself. Eating alone was freeing, too; I didn't have to make conversation.
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I definitely am a Twihard!
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All my mates are at university, and it's a life I haven't had a chance to enjoy, so it's great to turn up and sample a bit of it.
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I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.
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I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.
