Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
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The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
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I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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Philosophy was once considered science.
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You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.
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The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
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I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman."
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
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I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
