Chris Carter Quotes
It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
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Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?
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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women. I'm not surprised at all. In some ways, it may be a good thing. They're defending the patriarchy, which is a wounded beast! And wounded beasts are always dangerous.
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I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.
