Chris Bohjalian Quotes
I'm half-Armenian. Even though my grandparents did not discuss the genocide, and my father - like many sons and daughters of immigrants - wanted to be as 'American' as possible, I was always aware of it. How could I not be?
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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My experience is, the writer I was when I began was only a fraction of what I feel capable of doing now. Don't stand on that threshold saying, 'I'm uncertain about my talent.' You can grow that part of yourself.
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To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.
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I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.
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'We know a little place in the American Far West, where Charlie Briggs chops up the finest prairie-fed beef and tastes...' (pauses, and continues with a note of disgust in his voice) This is a lot of shit, you know that! You want one more? One more on the beef?
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I'm half-Armenian. Even though my grandparents did not discuss the genocide, and my father - like many sons and daughters of immigrants - wanted to be as 'American' as possible, I was always aware of it. How could I not be?
