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I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

~Christopher Fry

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In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

~Christopher Fry

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No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then to support it ever afterwards than myself.

~Christopher Gadsden

Topics: About Afterwards America Bring Congress Ever First Man More More And More Myself Successfully Support Than Then

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One of the first times I came to New York was for a modeling and talent competition, IMTA, which I won. I came with a group, like a modeling school from Fresno.

~Christopher Gorham

Topics: Came Competition First Group Like Modeling New New York School Talent Times Which Won York I Came

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'This is Spinal Tap' was a film we felt really had to be done like that. It wouldn't have worked any other way. And it turned out to be the first time a fiction film had really been made in a documentary format. I continued to do that, obviously, because it's a fun way to work.

~Christopher Guest

Topics: Any Any Other Way Be The First Because Been Continue Documentary Done Felt Fiction Film First First Time Format Fun Had Like Made Obviously Other Out Really Spinal Tap Time Turned Way Work Worked

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I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

~Christopher Hampton

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Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over my lifetime my ear has been well-tuned to that accent. Any first generation kid has that wonderful gift from their parents.

~Christopher Heyerdahl

Topics: Accent America Any Been Degrees Ear Father First First Generation Generation Gift He Kid Lifetime Norwegian Over Parents Speaks Still Well Who Wonderful 1950S

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Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Also Attempt Believing Care Cultural Faith First Healing Health Health Care History Human Intellectual Literature Make-Up Making Our Part Philosophy Religion Sense Texts Universe Where

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Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is 'naive' spelled backward, or that Bosnia is an anagram of 'bonsai.'

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Appreciate Backward Bosnia Every First First Time Naive Now Now And Then See Suddenly Then Time Will Word

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Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Elements Everyday First Invest Lovers Meetings Often Out Retrospective Significance Stubborn Try Witness

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