Christopher Paolini Quotes
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I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.
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A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!
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The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
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I think I am a star - I'm simply a funny-shaped star.
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Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a hoe. The prophet does not rise to reign, but to root out the weeds.
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One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
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There are plenty of movies that you need to chew on a bit. Movies that you return to and see something different in the second time around.
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Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
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Indian food is a luxury on tour.
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The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
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I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history.
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It's never going to get better than working opposite an actor like Jeff Bridges. That's as good as it gets. I don't even know what to refer to him as. He's just a great guy. He's iconic on his own merits.
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What I found in the Protestant faith was that your salvation is secure, and that the rest is process.
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I didn't start traveling abroad until I was 17, but I spent many summers on the beaches of Donegal in Ireland.
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Youth, large, lusty, loving-Youth, full of grace, force, fascination!Do you know that Old Age may come after you, with equal grace, force, fascination?
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Freud says, 'Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling.' Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.
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I probably will have to become more political down the road when my playing days are done, because I'm going to have to have the support of others to grow my foundation.
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Classrooms and educations need to be places of infectious passion
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I have a particular pair of headphones I love so much I bring them everywhere: Beats Studio. It's perfect for watching movies as well because you feel like you have your own theater with you, even with your iPad.
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Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.
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It's quantity, not quality.
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Characters are born from necessity.
