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 think the blues will always be around. People need it.
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My school is the world, and my teacher is the people. It is very important not to stay cloistered in the office if you want to create. We have to go out in society to understand how people live and dress in their real lives.
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To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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I see N.Y. hip-hop like I see N.Y. streets. N.Y. streets are grimy; it's a grind. N.Y. rappers are hustlers - whatever sound is in, we can adapt to that; there's nothing wrong with that.
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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.
