Chris Crutcher Quotes
My years as a therapist working with abuse and neglect families taught me at least one important lesson for my own life. Never judge until you can see through the eyes of that person you are judging, and then... never judge.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
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When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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We don't want our players getting hurt.
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When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.
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There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess.
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The Life at Conception Act legislatively declares what most Americans believe and what science has long known - that human life begins at the moment of conception and, therefore, is entitled to legal protection from that point forward.
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I doubt that Donald Trump would be happier... if he was a different person. But Trump is always telling people how great his life is and about all the great things that he's done, and that's also all about his income. And that's also what we found. If you ask people how their lives are going, as a whole, it seems they tend to point to income.
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Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.
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My years as a therapist working with abuse and neglect families taught me at least one important lesson for my own life. Never judge until you can see through the eyes of that person you are judging, and then... never judge.
