Christopher Paolini Quotes
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I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about myself, I'm like, 'blah blah blah blah.'
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If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.
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I think you have to be careful. You have to know exactly what is going to resonate with voters. And you can't get ahead of that. You have to be very careful with your approach.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.
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Frankly, I don't like publicity.
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The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.
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If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.
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A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know the logic behind the words. I have to be with the script for quite a long time before things start to fall into place, before they become part of the character.
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There was this darkness about being from New Jersey.
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Men are to be estimated, not from what they know, but from what they are able to perform
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Didn’t he know that when you work to destroy, you invite the Destroyer?
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Lysenkoism: A forlorn attempt not merely to colonize the botanical kingdom, but to instill a proper sense of the puritan work ethic and the merits of self-improvement.
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Mentally speaking, it sucks, man. Who wants to prepare their whole life and have it all taken away by some guy who just made a bad pass? But that's the beauty of the sport as well. Anything can happen.
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Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
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You can't read to yourself. It's your inner ear that hears a poem. If you hear a poet read his own work, it becomes very exciting. The melody is a great part of it.
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I wish to walk in such a line as will give most general satisfaction.
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Temple going is for the purification of the soul.
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‘I am not who I was, but I know who I am.’
