Christopher Paolini Quotes
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Platinum for me signifies everlasting love, which needs to be celebrated in the most special way.
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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The good romances are as good as anything.
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Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.
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I'm kind of a laugh junkie. It's what I appreciate in life, because life is rich and sometimes it's hard, and I really, really love to laugh and gravitate towards people who make me laugh.
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I know I'm gonna die so my revenge is living well.
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Believe it or not, I'm as much a fan of a supper shortcut as the next person.
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And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.
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Better to die than to live in fear.
