Chris Bohjalian Quotes
As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.
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Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!
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Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.
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I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.
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We think of bitcoin as mobile. It's not one company; it's broad.
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When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
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Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.
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As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for this author's voice so that you will feel you have been on a seductive audio journey.
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My dad is an engineer and works on green energy, so I'm very aware of what it takes to keep a modern home running and how we can simplify.
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My brain is good, but my body is deteriorating. I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn't make a difference to me.
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The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.
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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
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Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?
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There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.
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As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.
