Chris Collins Quotes
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.
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I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
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Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.
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We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
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People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.
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The day you decide to pursue your dreams, don't forget that this is a game you don't enter to compete, but to win. And there will always be someone booing you in the stands, and everything you accomplish could be jeered and hissed at. This is a game between two that you have to win for the people who came to watch you be triumphant.
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I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.
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A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?
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Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.
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My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.
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Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.
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When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen.
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There's no love lost between me and Mitt Romney.
