Christopher Priest Quotes
I don't think there is really much from my career that I want to go back to. I think that, with most of the characters that I've been lucky enough to work with, I've said all I have to say about the Black Panther, Green Lantern, and on and on.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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We must never bend too much.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.
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If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.
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Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.
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I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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I roll from my bedroom into my workroom in the morning and craft-craft-craft.
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There's definitely a list of things I'd like to do. But there's been a lot of things I hadn't even thought would have been possible to do that I'd been able to do, so I think I'll surprise myself and keep breaking that glass ceiling to see what's next. Hopefully people get surprised - that's my main goal.
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I don't think there is really much from my career that I want to go back to. I think that, with most of the characters that I've been lucky enough to work with, I've said all I have to say about the Black Panther, Green Lantern, and on and on.
