Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
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As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
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Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.
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I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror.
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Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.
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Entire affection hateth nicer hands.
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What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a very favorable credit-balance in the Enemy's ledger by allowing himself to be converted, and thinks that he is showing great humility and condescension in going to church with these 'smug', commonplace neighbors at all.
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
