Chris Klein Quotes
You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.
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Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.
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My feeling is that you should try to do the things you enjoy most in life. I chose acting as a career because I enjoyed it then as I do now. The only question for me then was, 'Can I make a living at it?'
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She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.
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There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.
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You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession.
