Christopher Paolini Quotes
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
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I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.
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I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.
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I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!
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The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.
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I've been spending quite a bit of time in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.K. as Mint is expanding globally, and I'm personally doing much of the research and business deals to make them happen.
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Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech.
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Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.
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It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.
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Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live
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A jumped-up little twerp and a prime candidate for exorcism
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In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
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The government shouldn't be involved in this because it's very simple. If you don't believe in same-sex marriage, then don't marry somebody of the same sex.
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I just love being outside.
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When you think about alien intelligences making art, you then have to think about what art is and how bound up it is in the nature of consciousness. Why do we make art? And what can we expect to have in common with other creatures in universe?
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Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily, outwardly accommodating themselves to alien mores and edicts while living in secret their iconoclastic and subversive lives.
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Those whom we love are often the most alien to us.
