Christopher Walken Quotes
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The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.
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It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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I was a very defiant child, and my father encouraged that. He wanted me to be as wild and creative as possible and didn't believe in disciplining children.
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For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse.
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My English was limited to vacationing and not really engaging with Americans. I knew 'shopping' and 'eating' English - I could say 'blue sweater,' 'creme brulee,' and 'Caesar salad,' - so I came here thinking I spoke English.
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Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.
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How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.
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I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.
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Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
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Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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Life is always struggle with eternal forces.
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I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.
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If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb.
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Small business people have gotten us out of nearly all modern recessions - not by waiting for others to fix things or turning to government, but rather by applying leadership, inventiveness, creativity and originality.
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Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.
