Christopher Priest Quotes
All people - white, black, whatever - are tribal in the sense that we relate to that which is familiar to us.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
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I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.
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I don't like to play the victim.
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The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
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Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.
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I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
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I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
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I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised.
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Opinion pages have an impact on public debate, and they sometimes reveal things the government would rather have kept quiet.
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My life is not only mine. I am telling the story of all North Korean people; it is my responsibility to tell it.
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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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All people - white, black, whatever - are tribal in the sense that we relate to that which is familiar to us.
