Christopher Parker Quotes
I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
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The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.
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You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
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Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.
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In order to get to where I want to be, I have to do the right things off the field, first.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.
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The American people recognize that their careers or their kids' careers are going to have to be more dynamic. That they might not be working at a single plant for 30 years. That they might have to change careers. They might have to get more education. They might have to retool or retrain. And I think the American people are game for that.
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I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for.
