Chris Colfer Quotes
'I'm currently double fisting a vanilla latte and a dirty chai. I've never had coffee before so this should be interesting. Good morning?'
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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I myself am not particularly interested in restaurant cooking. I don't really want to learn how to make a napoleon. I'd much rather learn how to make a very good lemon cake, which you can make in your own home. I like plain, old-fashioned home food.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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You have Mel Brooks and your Marx Brothers and your Larry David. So it's affected it enormously and really not at all. I don't think I've ever done anything comedically where the joke of it had to do with Judaism and Jewishness, but there's definitely a proud tradition of comedy in the Jews.
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'I'm currently double fisting a vanilla latte and a dirty chai. I've never had coffee before so this should be interesting. Good morning?'
