Christopher Reeve Quotes
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I'm a character actor.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
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The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.
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In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.
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In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.
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I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.
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It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.
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I love the Ronettes, the 'do-run-run-run' pop stuff. I love the lyrics, having 'blue, blue blue' being repetitive.
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After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.
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When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.
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I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you can get a sense of which side of the fence I'm on, then I'm not doing a service. I'm preaching, and that's not my job.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.
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People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money - they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet.
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Usually, I come for film promotions or events, but I have so many fond memories of Delhi.
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Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.
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Paying attention to the present moment without letting your thoughts and ideas about the past and the future get in the way is essential. Why? Because it makes room for the views of others. It allows us to begin to trust them—and, more important, to hear them. It makes us willing to experiment, and it makes it safe to try something that may fail. It encourages us to work on our awareness, trying to set up our own feedback loop in which paying attention improves our ability to pay attention. It requires us to understand that to advance creatively, we must let go of something. As the composer Philip Glass once said, “The real issue is not how do you find your voice, but … getting rid of the damn thing.
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
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I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.
