Chris Adami Quotes
I have a strange career. I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, 'Chris, you have a strange career.'
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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I don't care about revenues.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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I have a great office.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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I don't feel closeted.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.
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A sheepdog trial is the most difficult test of a man and dog ever devised.
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I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.
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When you put in place regulations that are so burdensome, so tough, so much so that they cripple your economy, we then don't have the resources to invest in technologies that are going to make that difference, because it's just going to shut everything down. That's not going to help us as an economy.
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Going back to 'The 100' is something I definitely wanted to do because the show is so great, and I'm so grateful to be part of it.
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One thing I've learned is that you have to be open-minded.
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I have a strange career. I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, 'Chris, you have a strange career.'
