Chris Cubas Quotes
Twitter is basically just writing a bunch of one-liners - it's a short form or whatever.
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I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
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Sweden had paternity-leave policies in place for years but found that few men were taking advantage of the benefit. While women felt comfortable taking time off to be with baby, men worried that they would look less dedicated to their careers if they did the same. So the Swedish government implemented a “use it or lose it” policy, mandating that the country’s thirteen-month parental leave cannot only be used by one parent – the other parent must use at least two months of the leave, or both lose those months entirely. Today 85% of Swedish fathers take paternity leave. The policy has helped redefine notions of masculinity and femininity in the already-egalitarian country.
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If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
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The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.
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Twitter is basically just writing a bunch of one-liners - it's a short form or whatever.
