Christopher Voss Quotes
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A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
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I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
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'This Is Not That Dawn' is remarkable in part for its careful and sensitive attention to women's lives - and also for its harsh critique of men and their failure to stop violence.
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I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.
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I've traveled around the world.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.
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In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.
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Since I started acting, I had to quit a lot of bad habits. I've tried to stop biting my nails, because people always look at your nails during auditions. Truth be told, I still have a 'cheat nail,' but I've been cheating less and less.
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Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
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We doubt not the destiny of our country - that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.
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Πιθανὸς ἄγαν ὁ θῆλυς ὅρος ἐπινέμεταιταχύπορος· ἀλλὰ ταχύμορονγυναικογήρυτον ὄλλυται κλέος.
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If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
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I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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I am not alone. I am free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody, I don't have to be a first to anybody. I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.
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Ethical axioms are founded and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
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I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.
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You get so tied up with the minutiae of the day-to-day, there's never a chance to sit back and let your subconscious run wild.
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I just want to be the best Carly Rae I can be.
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I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary and in some cases life-saving. I've had a few of those relationships, which I value highly.
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I love interaction with audiences. If were my choice, I would spend most of my time interacting with audiences. Walking around and asking them to challenge me.
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The most dangerous negotiation is the one you don't know you're in.
