Christopher Rouse Quotes
My father always told me that story was first and foremost. We would watch not just his films but a lot of classic American films. My father was a great David Lean fan, and David Lean's one of my favorite directors. We would discuss films endlessly.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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The simple things in life make me very happy.
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I just want to make everyone happy.
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I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.
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I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop.
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Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis
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I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.
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The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.
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What I like about the American woman is she usually has a lot of dynamism. In the U.S., women have a tendency to go forward, to be more exaggerated than in Europe. Many times the rough ideas come from the States, then they are refined in Europe. The American women and the French women are still the best-dressed.
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My father always told me that story was first and foremost. We would watch not just his films but a lot of classic American films. My father was a great David Lean fan, and David Lean's one of my favorite directors. We would discuss films endlessly.
