Christopher Dodd Quotes
It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.
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I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
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I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless you're Jedward! I'm doing very well, but I still have a mortgage to pay off. So I'm on the road.
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Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.
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I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.
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I have a few uniforms – depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me.
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In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.
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I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book!
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America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.
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The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
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There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.
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I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.
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Games take years to make, and it's important that when we launch, it can't just be a great launch catalog and then a desert for a really long time. To be honest, for a lot of developers, they'd rather not be competing at launch with all this other software.
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I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.
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A lot of lawyers are set to tell me that it's not my fault I like to eat.
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There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them.
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Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.
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It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.
