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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Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.
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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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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
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Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?
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I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.
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A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! … Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the people or the feminine, works in favor of universal suffrage, i.e. the domination of the inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment.
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Winning the Olympics was an amazing feeling, but afterwards, it was a bit like, 'What do I do now?' So I lost a bit of motivation going back into training and competitions; I had so much pressure on me. I kept thinking, 'I'm the Olympic champion. I can't lose' - being only 19 and having to deal with all that pressure.
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Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.
