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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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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The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
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When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
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It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
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I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.
