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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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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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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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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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Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
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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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Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.
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When I was heavier, I danced and I jumped out of planes. I've always rejected the idea that there's a certain look or size that makes it acceptable to live life.
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If you worry too much about anything, you end up making bad movies.
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I've been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.
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All people - white, black, whatever - are tribal in the sense that we relate to that which is familiar to us.
