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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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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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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You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything.
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I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
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When you're writing, you think: How does intimacy happen in the work? You don't know who your reader is, woman, man, child, black person, Asian, who knows?
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It's only in the United States that they make a big deal about nudity.
