Christopher Meloni Quotes
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The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
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The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.
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Even as one and the same person is called by different names according to the different functions he performs, so also one and the same mind is called by the different names: mind, intellect, memory, and egoity, on account of the difference in the modes - and not because of any real difference.
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Obviously there's a lot more to a TV show than just a book... I think adaptations are a bit tricky for the screenwriters because they're worried about upsetting the author.
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The auctioneer is talking for both people, and that's the big revelation about, 'Oh, that's what they're doing.' They're just doing it very fast, so you could kind of miss on that. He's speaking for you, because people in the crowd don't have a voice, so that's what really makes it compelling.
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My dad was a big runner. Growing up, I watched him do half marathons, and he was always running six or seven miles.
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I love coming of age stories that have struggle.
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Basically, I see Iran as an authentic nation-state. And that authentic identity gives it cohesion, which most of the Middle East lacks.
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I didn't really like being on television at all.
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I think to the extent you die with money in the bank, you've miscalculated.
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You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
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I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.
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Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.
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I had to read it out to my sister, who was witness to my early dark days, when my mother was afraid what would happen to me. But, I knew I couldn't read without choking up, so I asked Gautami to read it out for me.
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In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
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I don't retain facts very well when it comes to music history.
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It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.
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I want to make an album my grandma and my fans are going to like. I want to make my grandma understand a drop and make club fans understand a song.
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I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.
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It's fine to eat dessert when I want to eat dessert because that will give me the peace of mind I need. I'll know that if I ate chocolate cake, maybe I won't the next day.
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You have these catch-phrases that you associate with 'The X-Files': 'Trust No One,' 'Deny Everything.' 'Believe the Lie' was one of them.
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Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist.
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But I came from a conservative Republican background.
