Christopher Atkins Quotes
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I would like to see America some day.
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I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.
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Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night.
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I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.
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The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.
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The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.
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I've always defended Shania. She not only opened doors; she knocked several down.
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The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.
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I thought twenty was pretty scary, like, not being able to call myself a teenager anymore, and feeling like an adult – that kind of made me nervous.
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I always look for my mistakes so I can correct them in the future.
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The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.
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I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
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We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail.
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I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.
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If I'm afraid of someone on the street, I'll turn to him (it's always a boy) and say, "Excuse me, do you happen to know what time it is?" This is my way of saying to the person, "I see you as a friend, and there is no need to hurt me or take my stuff. Also, I don't even have a watch and I am probably not worth mugging." So far, it's worked like gangbusters... And I've discovered that most people I'm afraid of are actually very friendly.
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It's only in the United States that they make a big deal about nudity.
