Christopher Guest Quotes

If you didn't know who I was, if I was to walk out on the street without people knowing who I am, you'd think I'm an accountant or a lawyer.

Christopher Guest

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I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.

John C. Danforth

ParisWashingtonJapaneseMona

I studied poetry in college and for a year in an MFA program. As time went on, my poems got more and more complicated. What I was really trying to do was tell stories.

Jennifer McMahon

TimePoetryCollegeTryingYearGot

Why do we remember stuff from when we were 5 years old but not important facts that are more recent?

Robert Lepage

FactsRememberImportantWhyMore

People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never serious - they are flippant, complacent, ineffable, but never serious, which is sometimes maddening.

Anita Brookner

I AmPeopleMeSeriousSometimes

I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.

Stephen Daldry

WorkLearningHistoryTimeCountry

It's probably the first type of music we had, rhythm, whether it's poetry or tapping.

Shura

MusicPoetryFirstRhythmTapping

I'm for the fracking. I think it's an opportunity for Ohio to really get a lot of jobs. But we have to do it right. We have to really take a deep breath, do it right, make sure the public is protected, make sure our land is protected.

Mike DeWine

OpportunityDeepThinkLandRight

The way a musical can make us feel is unlike anything else, in song and particularly in dance. I think people fly through plate-glass windows when they get shot because movies don't have dance scenes any more. This is what we do instead.

Joss Whedon

DancePeopleFlySongThinkFeel

It's very important that we all have a common understanding of our purpose as a business - what we aspire to - and a strategy for achieving it.

Dennis Muilenburg

BusinessPurposeStrategyAchieving

When people ask me, 'Why don't you drink?' I usually smile and say 'Because I'm not good at it.'

Chris Gethard

SmileGoodPeopleMeYouSay

I'm booby and kind of curvy, so I definitely need to wear things that work with that. I can't just put on a muumuu, because it looks crazy on me.

Connie Britton

WorkMeCrazyLooksKindNeed

In our time, there are still many, like those in the Good Samaritan story, who being of the religious classes in that time, purposely crossed to the other side of the road, and passed by the injured and bleeding.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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