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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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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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've never personally been anorexic.
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Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault.
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My wife Patrice, in addition to being enormously supportive, has taught me a lot about life. She might argue it's because I have so much to learn. One of the most important things I've learned is the art of listening.
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And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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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.
