Chris Adrian Quotes
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
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Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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You are not a problem that needs solving.
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Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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A 'shared choice' movement sees the fetus as the genes of a woman and the genes of a man; the flesh of the woman, the flesh of the man; the bone of a woman, the bone of a man; the responsibility of a woman, the responsibility of a man; the rights of a woman, the rights of a man. It desires a transition to equality.
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As a teenager, I didn't want to be an actor at all.
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I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with - life's too short.
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There's a fundamental tension that is hard to overcome, that what's wholesome is not convenient and vice versa.
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Dr. King was unpopular while he was alive - he's only popular now because he's dead and not a threat to anyone.
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I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.
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My clients don't pay me to feel sorry; they pay me to bring them money. I am tough, but I have a soft side.
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'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
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Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.
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To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.
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We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.
