Chris Cleave Quotes
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I was the hallway clown in high school.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.
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People ordinarily don't think of their orchestras as important as we'd like them to be. People don't care about their friends and neighbors who sit down to commit excellence three or four times a year, but they will go see the tall bald guy with three names from television.
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It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.
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I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.
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Artists make our lives livable and enjoyable.
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I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.
