Christopher Parker Quotes
I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making.
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I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression. It was becoming worse. And I was being treated for it with anti-depressants.
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I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.
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And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.
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I try to take all of my experiences in and not take anything for granted.
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I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous.
