Chris Elliott Quotes
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I like to think I'm a role model for women. But I also don't like to just limit it to women. I like to think I'm a role model for human beings in general.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.
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My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.
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I think we can all learn things if we really want to. It's fascinating how that can get expedited when you have a support system around you.
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As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved.
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I love science fiction.
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Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
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What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we've sat at is that they are traditional cooks but also outrageously innovative. These people are wild improvisers.
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I have Vie Luxe candles in every room. In 2006 I spent the month of August in Sardinia, and the scent reminds me of the wonderful time we had.
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Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right?
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Whatever your issue, your cause, the festering problem you thought would be resolved - the political class has failed you.
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There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.
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I've learned never to expect people to be better than they are, but to always have faith that they can be more.
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I've loved Michael Jackson since the minute I was born. He's probably the most talented person ever. He was able to create such an amazing career and be probably the biggest star we've ever had.
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The most destructive criticism is indifference.
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I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.
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You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders. You can't do that, and they should not be held there. They need rehabilitative therapy.
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Figures were never for me a compact mass but like a transparent construction.
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I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"
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I'm not a competitive person.
