Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Quotes
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The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.
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I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou.
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If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
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When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear.
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
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I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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Celebrities are not necessarily the richest people of all, but on the face of it, they seem to be representative of the very richest people.
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I do not have very much office experience.
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The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.
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As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
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I do go back to Russia frequently, about twice a year. I hate the flight, but it's worth it. My parents have a home in a little village of 12 houses. It's not on any map, so unless you know it's there, you won't find it. Nothing works there; no Internet, no cell phone, and the land line only works sometimes. It's great!
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I am hugely insecure and desperate to be loved and I want my reader to adore me, to a disturbing, stalkerish degree.
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I've always had an eye for nature, but it's the sort of thing to keep quiet about, because I don't want to come across as a mad hippy. But it makes sense to appreciate those things.
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I love hearing my audience breathe.
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I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.
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I'm a show pony, and I don't get to skate with girls doing triple Axels every single day. I skate with little babies who are working on their single Axels while trying not to hit them on the ice.
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We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.
