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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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 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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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.
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Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay;And if in death still lovely, lovelier there;Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.
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I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit.
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Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
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Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.
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Nobody told David Clarke what to think, what to feel, what to say, what to believe in, who to marry, what kind of food to eat - you know that thing that the race hustlers like to say defines your blackness? But yet every time I look in the mirror in the morning, I see a black guy looking back at me.
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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.'
