Christopher Koch Quotes
Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.
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Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
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I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.
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If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.
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I've been amazed by the success of 'The Great British Bake Off.' I've been 'rediscovered' at the age of 76. When I was asked to be a judge, I said I wanted to be myself. I didn't want to shout like some other television judges. I also said I was a very bad bread maker, so would the programme makers find someone to help on the bread scene?
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Human perception is literally incarnation.
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Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.
