Christopher Fowler Quotes
The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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I'm my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
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Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
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Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It's just there. I can blend it into Ira's character. I can use Ira's emotions as an outlet.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
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A college degree is not essential, but if you're already in college, and if it's at all possible, you should definitely try to finish. In college, you have a very supportive community right there, and it can give you opportunities to try out new things.
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I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.
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I'm happy with my commercial heroine tag.
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Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They 'want' that. And it's good policy.
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Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
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A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
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The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
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We all have that desire to be kind of wild and bad.
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We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.
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Sister, mother And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea, Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come unto Thee.
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I know that not many people can go to the Marshall Islands. It is really one of the most remote places on earth.
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As a songwriter there's nothing more exciting than the unknown, the new and different.
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Most parents have long understood that kids don't have the judgment, the maturity, the impulse control and insight necessary to make complicated lifelong decisions.
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We tend to think of dangers and uncertainties as anomalies in the continuum of life, or irruptions of unpredictable forces into a largely predictable world. I suggest the contrary: that dangers and uncertainties are an inescapable dimension of life. In fact, as we shall come to understand, they make life matter. They define what it means to be human.
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The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.
