Chris Lowell Quotes
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I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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My philosophy is this: Do not tamper with the anatomy of a woman's body; do not camouflage it.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.
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I had written my master's thesis on Ezra Pound on 'The Cantos.' And don't ask me about it. I don't remember anything about it.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
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As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies.
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I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
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I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
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I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.
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We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
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Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
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I have photographed sharks in waters around the globe, and I always want more and yearn to peer deeper into their world. To feed my passion and to raise awareness, I developed a story about sharks for 'National Geographic' magazine.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.
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I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic.
