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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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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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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.
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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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There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.
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I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.
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I looked on IMDB, at the message boards there, and someone had posted something about a sheep having more talent than me.
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Paris Singer had vastly more to do with shaping my character than Mother had; although Mother made innumerable sacrifices for me, and Paris Singer made none. I wanted to be like him.
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I don't know of any artist who started off in the 50's who's making it now with new material.
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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.
