Chris Crutcher Quotes
Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking. I often feel like I have to go back to that 17-year-old Chris Crutcher, and that forms the core voice. I can draw on teens from 1964 to 2001 to find a part of the voice I need.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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Pablo wanted to be loved and accepted. He wanted to destroy the elite he despised so much, but he also wanted to be the president of Colombia.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.
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One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
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Right now, I don't have the same urges as other women when they see a baby. When I see children, I see responsibilities, which I don't think I'm quite ready for. I feel the same about puppies. They're cute for a second, but there's a lot of responsibility involved.
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My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.
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A wounded Qaddafi still in power would be an ongoing threat and menace to the rest of the world.
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Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking. I often feel like I have to go back to that 17-year-old Chris Crutcher, and that forms the core voice. I can draw on teens from 1964 to 2001 to find a part of the voice I need.
