Christopher Paolini Quotes
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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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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I liked to play dress-up.
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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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Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status.
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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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Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
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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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I play sports - like, I play a little bit of tennis, swimming, like a normal kid. I watch movies.
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One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist... What those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. The absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.
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Cancer is tough. Even saying it, it's a tough word to say.
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I think world creation and monster creation and all of that stuff is exciting as a secondary element of storytelling. When it becomes more important than storytelling, I get very nervous, and you sort of lose me a little bit.
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Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.
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'I am the victor. In the end nothing else matters.’
