Chris Messina Quotes
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I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
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Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.
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The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?
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Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.
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It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
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The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.
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I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magazine.' But all other comic books literally gave me a headache.
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
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No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.
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You see people all the time who are on hit shows and then you never hear from them again.
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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
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Wer den Daumen auf dem Beutel hat, der hat die Macht.
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God is surrounded with people full of love who demand of him the benefits of love which are in his power: thus he is properly the king of love.
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I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.
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Having done so many versions, I never felt like an artist in 'Swan Lake.'
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When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me.
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My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.
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I like to eat.
