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 don't think there is enough youth employment or enough push for youths to kind of do want they want to do.
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I love Australia. First of all, everyone is so nice. The people are down to Earth, and they like having fun with you.
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My job is to follow the law, not to make up the law that has been promulgated by the people or the people's representatives.
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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
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The most dangerous negotiation is the one you don't know you're in.
