Chris Hardwick Quotes
I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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The devil made me do it.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think.
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Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work … to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord.
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We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save people we don't know. We've outgrown a lot of survival-of-the-fittest strategies, and risking our lives for strangers might be one of them.
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Sometimes, I don't like making emotions your career; something about it is kind of gross. But, at the same time, I want to move people the same way the songs make me feel.
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Active-shooter scenarios have become part of the education lexicon. I had fire drills. My parents had duck and cover - nuclear and atomic bomb drills. Kids today grow up with this idea that this could happen at any point in time.
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I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.
