Christopher Morley Quotes
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
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Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Even someone who works with me, like this girl who works with me, her name is Sue. She lives with me and holds the fort; she takes care of all these little things. She takes care of the money situation, and I would not be able to live without someone like that.
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I became a dancer late and an actor late.
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America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
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When I was a kid, they used to say, 'Oh man, you don't ever wanna leave New York.' I don't ever want to stay in New York!
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.
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Even though the moniker 'Vanilla ISIS' is tongue in cheek, it is a reminder to avoid constantly framing the concept of terrorism through an Islam-centric lens.
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In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!
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Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
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I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind me.
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I didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from nothing to the top; they think you start at the top.
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Spain and the United States share the same values of democracy, liberty and fundamental freedoms.
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Boxing is what pays my bills.
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Whenever I wasn't working, I had my butt back in normal school.
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Whatever is calculated to weaken or impair the strength of Union, whether originating at the North or the South, whether arising from the incendiary violence of abolitionists, or from the coalition of nullifiers, will never meet with my unqualified approval.
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It's impossible to explain what I felt in that moment, just very, very happy to win this title. For me, it is a dream to play in this tournament. But to win, I never imagined something like this.
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It happens to us quite often-it feels as though I'm not playing my instrument, something else is playing it and that same thing is playing all three of our instruments. That's what I mean when I say it's frightening sometimes. Maybe we'll all play the same phrase out of nowhere. It happens very often with us.
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I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.
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Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past.
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Even if your parents don't have Alzheimer's or aren't in a wheelchair, your parents get old - if you're lucky to have parents who live for a long time. It's a challenge, and it's difficult and lovely and touching and awful and ghastly and real.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
