William Christopher Quotes
I've often wondered about people that come to the profession late in life. I've wanted to be an actor since the first grade. I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was... magic.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
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The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
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I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.
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Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.
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Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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Compromise has a negative connotation.
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I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.
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As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.
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I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.
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You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.
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God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
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There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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It is television; we're making television at the end of the day. It's all smoke and mirrors, and it's all fake, but it's not, because it makes people really feel things that are real.
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I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him and that not because he's handsome Nelly but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire.
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To those who feel defeated and downtrodden, look to the early hours of the day for your rescue...Shadows of yesterday's grief melt in the rays of early morn's opportunity.
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If one sees far, structural changes that come with temporary disruptions can be growth - and efficiency-augmenting in the medium to long term.
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I've often wondered about people that come to the profession late in life. I've wanted to be an actor since the first grade. I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was... magic.
