Christopher Priest Quotes
'Deathstroke' became an interesting challenge - not just because of his ethnicity, but because he's a villain. I've never written a villain as a protagonist of a series before. I thought this could be an interesting challenge. That's really what got my attention, and it just went from there.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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I like going to the gym every day because I'm in physiotherapy every day.
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I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up.
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Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
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Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.
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I haven't always been confident enough to rock different styles because I used to be really shy.
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Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'
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I don't know whether that comes from having a family - having something very important at home that needed to be protected.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi.
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'Deathstroke' became an interesting challenge - not just because of his ethnicity, but because he's a villain. I've never written a villain as a protagonist of a series before. I thought this could be an interesting challenge. That's really what got my attention, and it just went from there.
