Chris Kirkpatrick Quotes
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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When all your stuff gets smashed, everybody gives you new stuff. And when you've been playing the same guitar since you were like 12, that's a lot like dancing with somebody else's wife.
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I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
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I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went to school. Actors will tell you I'm very precise. I just have the intuition of doing things.
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As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.
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People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.
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From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.
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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14.
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Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.
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No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
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I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a Modest Mouse song' or 'This is an Ugly Casanova song.' The people who were open to it not being a Modest Mouse record liked it.
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I'm not exactly in a position where I get to be super-picky about the roles I get. But I would also never want to be a part of something that I think is poor in taste or doesn't align with what I believe in.
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Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.
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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
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You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.
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We will work to bring an element of stability to the price of oil.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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I talked about the stuff so openly that people are able to connect and relate. I put everything out there [into the network], and if I'm having a bad time, people know about it.
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First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H.G. Wells novel.
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I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel - below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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It's all about the special effects.
