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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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
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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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When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.
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The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
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In all honesty, I should have given up this acting lark years ago.
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By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
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I feel guilty when people say I'm the greatest on the scene. What's good or bad doesn't matter to me; what does matter is feeling and not feeling. If only people would take more of a true view and think in terms of feelings. Your name doesn't mean a damn, it's your talents and feelings that matter. You've got to know much more than just the technicalities of notes; you've got to know what goes between the notes.
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'I am the victor. In the end nothing else matters.’
