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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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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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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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
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Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days.
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People think floating should be the easiest and happiest time for a company, but it's actually really hard. We were meant to think we'd won - we'd gone public and could go on to new things. But we were only just getting started.
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We are in this time of corporations being so greedy and global. Some people want to call it the apocalypse. When I was born it was half the people on the planet. It has doubled in my life time. This is not sustainable for the earth; of course we are going somewhere. So we have to live preciously, we have to live each day with care!
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When I have time, I really enjoy cooking.
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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.
