Chris Colfer Quotes
The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.
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We did out best to lose that one. The game was there for the taking and we blew it.
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The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.
