Christopher Guest Quotes

The truth of it is that people are not going to want to go to improvisational theater if it's not funny. You can succeed in doing all the things you're supposed to do - be truthful to scene - and if it's not funny, I'm telling you that no one's gonna care.

Christopher Guest

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If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

Johann Lamont

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I first read 'An American Tragedy' in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful.

Robert Gottlieb

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I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

Roy Rogers

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When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her.

Rush Limbaugh

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Perseverance has always just been something that was in me. And it was a tool that came in very handy as a ballerina.

Misty Copeland

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I was a Skynyrd fan all along. But I was also the brother of the lead singer who passed on. I just didn't want to do anything that would harm the band's name.

Johnny Van Zant

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My parents have always been very supportive. I didn't go to school because my home was my school.

Clara Mamet

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There's nothing like being involved with a team that can go that distance.

Chuck Daly

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I want to be part of great cinema. That is my only aim.

Anushka Sharma

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I think any new technology that helps connect and create social cohesion is great. But at the end of the day, you and I are analog creatures. We have to take 'oohs and aahs' and convert them to 0s and 1s and then convert them back to 'oohs and aahs.' Narratives that work in social networks are the exchange of stories that are told well.

Peter Guber

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Generally, I'm a pretty mellow guy.

Shaun White

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Attempts to settle crises by unilateral sanctions outside the framework of U.N. Security Council decisions threaten international peace and stability. Such attempts are counterproductive and contradict the norms and principles of international law.

Sergei Lavrov

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