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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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.
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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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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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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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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant.
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Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.
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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.
