Christopher Atkins Quotes
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We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.
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If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
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Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
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The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
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I don't drink coffee.
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I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.
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We were determined to be in the fashion, and to visit the various delightful watering places on Long Island Sound. Of course, it would be necessary to combine business with pleasure and pursue our calling as beggars.
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.
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For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person, and things happen to them, and then something big happens, and they realize something new.
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I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
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I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.
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'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere.
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I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.
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I have a very broad range of life experiences.
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What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you'll know what frightens me.
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Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.
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I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags.
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We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see.
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Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot.
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One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray.
