Chris Carter Quotes
Really, some of the best 'X-Files' stories come right out of science. And you just apply that 'what-if' idea. Oh, what if this were true? And that's why so many times the show is scarier because it was not necessarily improbable.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
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I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.
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I was lucky to grow up in the '90s, when we had just as many strong female artists as male artists. That's a world I would like to live in again.
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I learned from my mom to always keep pushing yourself.
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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of a cobweb in the rain represent a decisive moment? The exposure time was probably three or four minutes. That's a pretty long moment. I would say the decisive moment in that case was the moment in which I saw this thing and decided I wanted to photograph it.
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Really, some of the best 'X-Files' stories come right out of science. And you just apply that 'what-if' idea. Oh, what if this were true? And that's why so many times the show is scarier because it was not necessarily improbable.
