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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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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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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Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
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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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Due to mistakenly believing that outer problems are their own problems, most people seek ultimate refuge in the wrong objects. As a result, their suffering and problems never end.
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I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.
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Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.
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If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.
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I think, visually, 'Moon' probably owes more to the first half of 'Alien' and 'Outland' than it does to '2001.' The character of Gerty is obviously a straight rip-and-riff on HAL.
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Those whom we love are often the most alien to us.
