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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In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party, and it's discussed, but it wasn't an overwhelming theme for me.
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I don't think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need a charismatic leader and some teachings, and before you know it, you have a cult.
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I want to work, so I'm going where the work is.
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The one thing that did stand out in my memory was the fact that he had a well documented association with Heroin. Growing up with a somewhat myopic view of the world, I could not understand how it was that people could put a drug user on such a high pedestal (If you will pardon the pun).
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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.'
