Chris Elliott Quotes
I don't get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I'm the funny guy.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Samuel Butler
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
Rachel Kushner
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
Callie Khouri
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
Malcolm Lowry
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
Dan Aykroyd
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
Ilyasah Shabazz
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
Dana Brunetti
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
Tamsin Greig
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Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
Hakeem Olajuwon
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
Daniel Dennett
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
Hamid Karzai
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
Hanif Kureishi
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
Carlton Fisk
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I love working with women.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
Yair Lapid
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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
Ian Hislop
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One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy?
Bob Schieffer
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There's a certain degree of speculation that goes into valuations. In so far as the market supports a valuation, everyone who gets a great one deserves it, but they should also be cautious because that speculation is temporary. I saw Yahoo go from $100 billion to $10 billion. It's not a long-term measure.
Brian Acton
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I'm very ambivalent in my feelings about marriage. I think it promises a lot to people... sort of like saying, once you get married you are on the highway to heaven, and quite often it isn't that. I think marriage has always been based on a combination of religious and legal reasons.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
Samuel Larsen
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I don't get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I'm the funny guy.
Chris Elliott