Christopher Voss Quotes
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A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.
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I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.
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I'm terrified of having a little girl. Girls are more evil than boys.
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A girl must marry for love - and keep on marrying until she finds it.
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I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.
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In every case where I've seen a transformational school, there's a principal who really has the foundational experience of having taught successfully.
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I don't want to be known as the Hilton heiress, because I didn't do anything for that.
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People don't want to hear about it if you're frustrated with your big career break.
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And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.
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I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.
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Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year.
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I was bullied at school.
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I don't think anyone could play me. It would have to be me.
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People who work for me know that family comes first. And I'm fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don't have to live two separate lives.
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New Year's Eve is a great time to think about making a resolution to change a behavior, improve upon a practice, or to start something new. Most people don't keep their resolutions very far into the year, but there's no reason to wait until Dec 31st to reboot.
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Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me.
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
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Sometimes when earth's gods are homesick they visit in the still of the night the peaks where once they dwelt, and weep softly as they try to play in the olden way on remembered slopes.
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It’s just not right that Donald Trump can ignore his debts, but students and families can’t refinance their debt.
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I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.
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Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?
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Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.
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What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.
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I wanted to be a hostage negotiator.
