Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
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I try to write catchy hooks but, at the same time, things that mean something that will provoke thought.
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I was always a performer kid - like, annoyingly so. I would put on shows for my family and direct my friends in little plays, and my little sister, I'd make up dances with her. But when I was 12, that was when I started taking it seriously, and my mom for some reason believed in me and helped me find an agent in Cleveland, which did nothing for me.
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There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.
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Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.
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I'm not for having to support everything that's black, because I definitely don't. But I do feel like it is imperative for us to see that we are not a monolithic people.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
