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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Barley and mushroom is a soothing combination. It's mainly a textural thing, with the barley both gently breaking and enhancing the mushroomy gloopiness.
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I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.
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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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When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.
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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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There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment in which Earth and the Sun is immersed, the behavior of the Sun.
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When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.
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I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch.
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No one cares what you ate for breakfast. Unless it's something really spectacular, don't tweet me your breakfast, I don't care.
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The very metaphor Paul chooses for this decisive moment in his argument shows that what he has in mind is not the unmaking of creation or simply its steady development, but the drastic and dramatic birth of new creation from the womb of the old.
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I wanted to be a hostage negotiator.
