Chris Wedge Quotes
You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.
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I don't believe in one ideal beauty.
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My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.
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I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health.
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I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.
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Most of the cricketers are doing side businesses apart from playing the sport, so why should I be left behind. I feel there is a lot of money in making films, and since Punjabi cinema is doing good, this is a lucrative option for me.
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I'm looking for a bunch of new tchotchkes that represent the new part of my life.
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Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.
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I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.
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That's quite a difficult thing in life, to be who you are. And when you are doing interviews, you kind of feel this need to say something interesting.
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Back when the EPA proposed phasing out ozone-depleting CFCs, the chemical industry howled that refrigerators would fail in America's supermarkets, hospitals and schools.
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Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.
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I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.
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My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'
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The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.
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Alvin wondered if it was true-if all men had evil in their hearts, and those men as were good, maybe they were simply the ones who controlled theirselves so well they could act contrary to their heart’s desire. But if that were so, then no man was good, not one.
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New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space, and crowding problems would be over indefinitely.
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
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I love acting. I just love it. It's in my bones.
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I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read. My principle in researching a novel is 'Read like a butterfly, write like a bee', and if this story contains any honey, it is entirely because of the quality of the nectar I found in the work of better writers.
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I love doing things that people don't expect.
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You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.
