Chris Lane Quotes
When I first started as a cover band, I built everything based on hanging out every night after the shows and talking to as many people as I can and making relationships.
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I am not honest.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.
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I always laugh at these companies that have these rules saying, 'You're only allowed to have this or that on your desk.' It's no fun to work at a place like that.
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One of the best ways to convince someone is to use a telling example, a story, a narrative. When Steve Jobs announced a new product, he told a story, exzlaining how a product would change the world as we know it. He turned Apple into a story whose challenges and adventures you want to hear about.
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As much as people say they love change, they love it when you change - not when you want them to change. Even when it comes to processes they don't like, they're afraid of change.
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If you're going to be adapting something across media, you should at least have the moves that people want you to hit and that you want to hit.
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When I first started as a cover band, I built everything based on hanging out every night after the shows and talking to as many people as I can and making relationships.
