Chris Hayes Quotes
My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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We really love to learn and explore things.
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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I always liked spy stories.
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I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not be right, because I'm the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It's the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.
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If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.
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The great gold planet that is the mourning heat of the SunIs greater than all gold, more powerfulThan the tawny body of a Lion that fire consumesLike all that grows or leaps... so is the heartMore powerful than all dust.
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My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept working with me. I finally went to a summer workshop before my senior year with people like Sam Shepard and Maria Irene Fornes who encouraged me to write from my subconscious, and suddenly all this material about culture clash came out.
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Governmental intervention and personal responsibility are not mutually exclusive issues, but they do frame a 'do it ourselves' vs. 'what are you doing for us' debate. For the black community, that's a debate that's been raging at least as far back as the W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington philosophical grudge matches.
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Every year is beautiful, and I try to appreciate each moment in my career, but 30 was definitely one of my best.
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It doesn't happen that way.
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My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.
