Chris Parnell Quotes
After college, I went to Alley Theatre in Houston to work in their apprentice actor program. I thought I was gonna get discovered. It didn't happen. I moved back to Germantown, Tennessee, outside of Memphis, and taught at my old high school.

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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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Justice is revenge.
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I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She's got real charisma.
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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Democracy is not about one party dominating.
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Home is where one starts from.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
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I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
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Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.
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I think the reason I'm an actor is the joy I find from escaping and going to be somebody else. That's what I have fun doing.
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I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.
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You don't go to Berkeley to become an actor. In fact, I don't think you go to any school to become an actor. You've just sort of got to go out there and act.
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The six types of song that have shaped human nature-friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion, and love songs-I've come to think are obvious...
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After college, I went to Alley Theatre in Houston to work in their apprentice actor program. I thought I was gonna get discovered. It didn't happen. I moved back to Germantown, Tennessee, outside of Memphis, and taught at my old high school.