Christopher Koch Quotes
I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.
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Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!
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Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.
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Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.
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Always in life bad times will lead to great times.
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My philosophy is 'learn while you live.' 'LazyTown' is about balance. I'm not there yet.
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Institutional Buddhism has been conspicuously ready to accept or ignore the inequalities and tyrannies of whatever political system it found itself under. This can be death to Buddhism, because it is death to any meaningful function of compassion.
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Classical political economy nearly touches the true relation of things,without, however,consciously formulating it. This it cannot so long as it sticks in its bourgeois skin.
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I like to consider my mind an open door. It's just not a revolving door.
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'If some of the current politicians had been around a few thousand years ago,' she’d said, 'we never would have gotten out of Africa. Boats cost too much.'
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The borderline between normal and schizophrenic people is broad and nearly imperceptible.
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Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.
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Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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I give everything to my work, and I like complex roles, characters that aren't obvious. I've been very lucky so far, and I'm dreaming of working with directors like Jane Campion, Susanne Bier and the Dardennes. But the gods will decide.
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'Shelby Star' is going great. We shot a music video, and I'm building an app and some other things for the project.
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The venerability, reliability, and utility of truth is something which a person demonstrates for himself from the contrast with the liar, whom no one trusts and everyone excludes. As a 'rational' being, he now places his behavior under the control of abstractions. He will no longer tolerate being carried away by sudden impressions, by intuitions.
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I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.
