Christopher Paolini Quotes
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I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
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I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
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Sport is an important part of the development of kids, and hence, it should be made a part of their curriculum.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
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A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.
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The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.
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My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.
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I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't – that to me is not life.
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There's no job that will humble you like the White House press secretary job.
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My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.
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When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.
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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
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But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it.
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It is disconcerting to sit with your parent and find you're turning over your future to your government, which can't manage their money.
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Make no mistake: Restoring our economy is very much a women's issue.
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Approximately 400 cuts - that would make 25 percent of the total - use CGI. I worked on the Steamboy's animation production based on the usual handwriting method. Digital animation is just supplementary. I didn't do anything surprising, because the idea is to overcome the limitation of expressions done by handwriting with the help of CGI.
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It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems banal to him; he fears banality worse than anything, and therefore, he uses free verse - though free verse is no guarantee against banality.
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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.
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The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.
