Chris Weitz Quotes
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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I don't like allegories.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
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My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.
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Being able to be dry in a second language is almost the last thing you learn.
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My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house.
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There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
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The commitment to literacy was constant on the part of African Americans. And the percentages of literacy by the end of the century, by 1900, basic literacy has galloped ahead. People believed that education, of course, was the turnstile for advancement.
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Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people's projects. But I don't do that anymore. I just want to be off the cuff and honest.
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People always want the stars of movies to fall in love with one another.
