Christopher Paolini Quotes
Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing, and the more he was around it, the more it gnawed away at who he was.
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I believe in giving back.
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We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
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We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
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I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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Just do what you believe in, and success will follow.
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
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Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
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I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.
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I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
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I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.
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Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.
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I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.
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Gothic script seemed to warp every letter that passed through the door of the funeral parlour, as if death were a German village.
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Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing, and the more he was around it, the more it gnawed away at who he was.
