Chris Colfer Quotes

I'm horrible at auditions anyway. Maybe that's why I never got anything.

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• I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Work
  • Art
  • Why

• I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Enjoy

• I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • People
  • Up
  • Women

• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• This can sound as something naive. But if we are together in this union, it's because we choose to be one in many things. That's what makes the European Union experience so challenging and also a model. Why did we do this choice? Because we see that we share a common interest and common values.

  

  Federica Mogherini
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  • Experience
  • Together

• Yes, I mean, I used to be into the big bulk thing, and that's why my legs look like those of a cyclist instead of a shooter's, but I think there is a point to where too much is not a good thing. I think I try to lower my center of gravity by doing a lot of legs.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Good
  • Why
  • Think

• Sometimes, you're going 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a few months, and then you come home, and you wonder what you're doing with your life and why. At least, that's the experience I've had.

  

  Verite
  • Life
  • Why
  • Home

• The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • World
  • Why
  • Strong

• We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Why
  • Help

• But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Why
  • Experience
  • Library

• If you play cricket for India, money is bound to come, and with IPL in and match money of the Ranjhi trophy, I think money is there. There's no good reason why you should not work hard, because at the end of the day, you want to play for your country.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Good
  • Work
  • Country

• If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Poetry
  • Hunting
  • Desperate

• You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been on the circuit.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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  • Think
  • Know

• I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Why
  • Business
  • Growth

• If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Women
  • Why
  • Space

• I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Why
  • Advice
  • Wealth

• I learned a lot about America and a lot about Pat Schroeder, and that's why I will not be a candidate for President.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Why
  • America
  • Will

• Why can't I just eat my waffle?

  

  Barack Obama
  • Why
  • Just
  • Eat

• The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in the room. If you want to totally misunderstand why something is supposedly important, find the biggest fan of that particular thing and ask him for an explanation. He will tell you everything that doesn't matter to anyone who isn't him. He will describe paradoxical details and share deeply personal anecdotes, and it will all be autobiography; he will simply be explaining who he is by discussing something completely unrelated to his life.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• I remember seeing 'Aladdin' when I was five or six and loving it. I looked at the big screen and said to my mum, 'Whatever this Genie guy does, I want to do.' Mum said I couldn't be a genie, but that Robin Williams, who did the voice-over in the film, was an actor. So I said, 'OK, then, I want to be an actor.'

  

  Darren Criss
  • Remember
  • Guy

• If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • Stop
  • Church
  • Drinking

• I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Good
  • Job
  • Thought

• Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.

  

  Bernie Sanders
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• I'm horrible at auditions anyway. Maybe that's why I never got anything.

  

  Chris Colfer
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