Chris Chambliss Quotes
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you're playing. I think you want that, too: you're rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they're angry at each other, they're still in synch with each other.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
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I fight because I like challenges.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.
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Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.
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I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.
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The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike.
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We can't change it now. Obviously, it would be better if he was playing.
