Chris Carter Quotes
Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.
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Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.
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Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
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I hated the thought of being just a songwriter.
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Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.
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I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something.
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I've perfected the art of busting on people. That's how comedians show each other love.
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Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.
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Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'
