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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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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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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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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He was a revealing symbol. He called himself passive-aggressive. There was self-pity, whining. There was a diminishment, a diminution. He was sitting there in his sweater, hunched over his guitar, looking like a little lost boy. Compare that with the great figures of my generation: Jimi Hendrix. Pete Townshend. Keith Richards.
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Man is a victim of dopeIn the incurable form of hope.
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Look, as long as we can enrich uranium and master the fuel cycle, we don’t need anything else. Our neighbors will be able to draw the proper conclusions.
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It was a debacle which swept the Columbia Plateau.
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The platform got me out of a very dark period of my life, so I love YouTube genuinely.
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There's so much black content on multiple platforms, and it's all getting great ratings. If you think about the Oscars snubbing 'Straight Outta Compton,' in a way, that kicked all of this off.
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Falling asleep is like landing a plane. It takes time. You've got to sort of gradually descend. I think one of the problems with insufficient sleep is people are not very good at predicting how poorly they are doing when they are under-slept.
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Russians – people, as a rule, are deep, friendly, often prone to melancholy.
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The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.
