Christopher Plummer Quotes
I was an only child, so I was very demanding. I enjoyed it thoroughly, but I wasn't very pleasant.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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We have to take care of ourselves if we are going to take care of anyone else properly.
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A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.
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Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.
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Any little touch a defender can make on me when I'm in the air literally moves me. On the ground, I can use my muscle, but in the air, it's harder to fight that off.
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I go to work and get to hang out with nothing but my kind of guys!
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.
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I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.
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I have fun when I'm making music, and I want people to have fun when they listen to it.
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Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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I was born in Riverside and spent my whole growing-up years in Florence, a little township on the Delaware River. I tell people that I'm from the West Coast of New Jersey.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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Cinderella is making her Broadway debut. It's an honor to step into that position and, in that way, I am creating a role because it's never been done on Broadway. I feel so honored.
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I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.
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I spend a lot of time on college campuses, a lot of time mentoring young women in all sectors of business, because I don't want them to spend as much time to get their voice as I did.
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Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford had become available.
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What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.
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I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to direct traffic. The idea of taking out the parts that the reader could infer is very liberating, and it's weirdly part of radicalizing your work: it allows you to go to new places fast.
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I don't enjoy hitting people; I enjoy outsmarting them.
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We should not assume that Russia is doomed to live according to its worst traditions. In fact, in Russian history, failed efforts at external aggression, when they fail, usually bring on areas of internal reform.
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I was an only child, so I was very demanding. I enjoyed it thoroughly, but I wasn't very pleasant.
