Chris Liddell Quotes
What you learn at university is a good discipline but has little relevance to a real job.
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When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The amount of wealth tends to be less.
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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When I was a little bitty boy, I was a fan of boxing. But in Louisiana, it's football, football, football, and then everything else.
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I've felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger. I could hide from view, like a bat on the underside of a branch.
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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
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Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.
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I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so it was expected as her best friend that I would go to church every Sunday with her.
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What you learn at university is a good discipline but has little relevance to a real job.
