Chris Bohjalian Quotes
What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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We are not going to welcome any more people. Stop - we are full up!
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.
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You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.
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In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.
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What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.
