Christopher Paolini Quotes
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
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Even if you're an angry, intense person, you also have to have intense joy about life and intense feelings about the world.
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If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.
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I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country.
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I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.
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Music is like a language: you cannot understand it unless you learn it, or more accurately, are born into it.
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It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.
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The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged.
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Every animal is related to its own constitution and the consciousness of it.
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I've always been covered by a press that's mostly financial press.
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When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.
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I wouldn't sacrifice my business for no acting career because my business is something, ultimately, that I know I'm going to pass down to my kids, and that's most important to me than anything else in the world. I can't pass an acting career down to my children.
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I have two principle aims, two life works. The second is my sonata Schwitters' 'UrSonata' - a long sound poem of 35 minutes
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The characters I've played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, and they always try to use their wits instead of their fists.
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If my life were a song it would be called 'Don't Stop Believing'. Yeah.
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I have no clue. I have ovaries; therefore, I repel all things mechanical.
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'I am the victor. In the end nothing else matters.’
