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A whole new career opened up for me when I was in 'Lord Of The Rings' and 'Star Wars.'


Christopher Lee

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CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
CHRISTOPHER QUILL Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place,...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country whe...
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtes...
CHRISTOPHER RICKS Only the sinner has a right to preach.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you your...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. It requires so much attention.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to live your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, and earning.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every tele...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is o...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....
CHRISTOPHER MOORE I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hun...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, the...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and supers...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On ever...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS