Christopher Walken Quotes
As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.
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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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I see a lot of comments on Twitter and stuff about how ugly I am, how bad I am at the drums, how awkward I look, and I'm like, yeah, I agree with most of those things.
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I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.
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'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
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Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
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You can't hit what you can't see.
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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
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I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.
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I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.
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Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.
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They had a hard time miking me in my loin cloth, I mean, where were they gonna tape it?
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I'm a British designer, and it's great to show on your own ground.
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As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.
