Christopher Atkins Quotes
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As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.
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Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.
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I love seeing people be successful! I love that. It's wonderful. There's enough room for everybody.
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You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.
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Circumstances have rarely favored great men. A lowly beginning is no bar to a great career. The boy who works his way through college may have a hard time of it, but he will learn how to work his way in life, and will usually take higher rank in school and in after life than his classmate who is the son of a millionaire.
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I'm not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don't have that at all - I don't mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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For a long time, I'd work until 10 or 11. When I work, I'm on. I'm 'Magic.' I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.
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I studied classical guitar in school, and that type of stuff has led to writing for Kronos.
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To convince another part of the world that Bollywood is not just jokers who break into song and dance was very difficult. I'm literally ploughing the ground and making people understand that Indian actors are not a joke.
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Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.
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I am not one of these people who spend a ton of time in front on my computer; I see it as very utilitarian.
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I choose things that challenge me. I was afraid of the camera - that's why I chose to do 'Private Practice.' It's not like I left the theater.
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Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas.
