Chris Evans Quotes
I hung out with the jocks. It doesn't mean I necessarily was one. I was just kind of there.
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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.
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When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
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I am not only the person who wrote and sold a novel while raising a houseful of biological and foster children; I am also the person who wrote a horrific young adult novel that never sold and gave up on a foster child I couldn't handle - an experience that still haunts me.
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I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.
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I have been accused of things that I have never done. I have been called a perpetrator of incidents while I was actually a peacemaker. I really don't know why. Yuvraj Singh isn't a party animal; he is just singled out. I don't know why.
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A lot of Playmates look like Playmates, but I look so girl-next-door and wholesome.
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More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.
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Music falls on the silence like a sense, A passion that we feel, not understand.
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You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.
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We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures.
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Audiences want and need a shared viewing experience.
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I hung out with the jocks. It doesn't mean I necessarily was one. I was just kind of there.
