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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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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That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.
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First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.
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I struggle between what I know is right in my own mind, and some warped truthfulness as seen through other people's eyes who have no heart, and can't see the difference anyway.
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We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what it really was, what it meant.
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From a very early age, as far back as I can remember, I always played sports.
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I wanted to be a hostage negotiator.
