Chris Gibson Quotes
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When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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I was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1943, but I was in a course that was supposed to give us four years of high school plus a year of college in our four years. So by the end of my junior year, I would have had enough credits to graduate from high school.
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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
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I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'
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My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that's what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles.
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If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
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A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.
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In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.
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Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
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I fight for the debunking of the artist and an end to individual pictures.
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There's all these idealistic things that TV and movies tell you that you should want to be. And when you're growing up, you find out what you really care about and what really matters.
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There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
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Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns.
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A precise language awaits a completed metaphysics.
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It's not like my old self – I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
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I have written some poetry and two prose books about baseball, but if I had been a rich man, I probably would not have written many of the magazine essays that I have had to do. But, needing to write magazine essays to support myself, I looked to things that I cared about and wanted to write about, and certainly baseball was one of them.
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I am talking about misery and all of its implications.
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In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot.
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I've learned that selflessness is a practice, not a place; a journey much more than a destination.
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I look at the corruption in Albany and we cannot accept that.
