Chris Colfer Quotes
The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.
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XML is crap. Really. There are no excuses. XML is nasty to parse for humans, and it's a disaster to parse even for computers. There's just no reason for that horrible crap to exist.
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I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult.
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Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood.
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The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.
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The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.
