Chris Eigeman Quotes
I never thought about movies. I never thought about Hollywood. It was just being on the stage and being in New York.
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
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We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
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I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!
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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
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I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'
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When I got out of high school, I was working in restaurants in New York City, when I heard Bill Anderson from The Neighborhood Playhouse was doing private lessons. I started taking classes, and it was a lot of improv and Meisner and repetition.
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Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?
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More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.
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Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.
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One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people of rank. It is disagreeable to listen to.
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To spend too much time in studies is sloth.
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I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.
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I never thought about movies. I never thought about Hollywood. It was just being on the stage and being in New York.
