Chris Cornell Quotes
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I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
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As a kid, I got teased about my unibrow. Now I love my brows.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.
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I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it.
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It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.
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To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward. If it's good enough to get his attention, it's good enough to produce.
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My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.
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Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.
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I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.
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We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state... Not just in exceptional moments.
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As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.
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Tel Aviv is the most exciting place to eat in Israel.
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The point of vision and desire are the same.
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When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism.
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I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.
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In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.
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I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.
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What will growth policy have to look like in a fiscally compacted Europe? Clearly any illusion of budget stimulated growth policy will have to go away.
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A Princely Mind will undo a private Family.
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That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure out how all these Renaissance paintings manage to work together.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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If you put the right things out there the right things will happen.
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No matter what, I can't sound like John Lennon. But I can do Tom Jones.
