Christopher Shays Quotes
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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They wanted to audition people for the Middle East correspondent on 'The Daily Show.' They wanted to hire somebody ethnic for that slot. Helms had left, Cordry had left, and they felt that they needed an ethnic face. So, I went in and auditioned, and I got the job.
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Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
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I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don't know I'm only using blanks.
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In most specials, the performer's up - not only not surrounded, but up on a stage - and there's a distance between them and the audience, and I think my comedy doesn't work as well in that way.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise.
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I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.
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Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that.
