Christopher Plummer Quotes
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.
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Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.
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Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people. I hope it inspires people to be themselves and be comfortable in your own skin.
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When I was a kid, I wasn't making my choices based on anything other than 'Did I want to work that day?' or 'Did being in school sound more fun?' And I don't remember ever reading a script and thinking, 'Is this going to be a fun part to play?'
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
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Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.
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It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.
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I was 18 years old when I booked 'Youth in Revolt,' and it was my first movie, and I was starring in that movie - and even then, I didn't feel like I had made it.
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I'm not really a big X's and O's guy, but if you want to go there, I'm more of a space-the-floor type of coach: Five out, zero in, and that's the way we play basketball, screen and roll here and there, pocket passes everywhere; it's what it's about.
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Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
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I admire Ridley Scott, and I'm thrilled to be making a movie for him.
