Perry Christie Quotes
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.
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Equality in education is my number one battle.
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.
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If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.
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'Glass Sword' has several set piece scenes that I plotted out or visualized before I wrote them, but I always knew they were coming. They anchor bits of the story.
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It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.
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I'm a very low-key person, but for some reason, I like to act out.
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Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
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Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.
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Greg White got a boxer because I said I was getting one. I was talking about getting a boxer since before training camp.
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Whenever you hear news about jobless claims or the unemployment rate, you should translate that in your mind to one simple phrase: Stay in school.
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Any conductor who tells you that if he is approached for the directorship of the Chicago Symphony that he's not interested in it, you know perfectly well he's lying.
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All beginnings are involuntary.
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If there's any place that Bode connects, it's with kids. The way CBS portrayed him in their press release gave kids this misguided view that this is how they should be acting.
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This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next.
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The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution which idealism palms off as the totality of being.
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You cannot be serious!
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The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.
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The Bahamas is headed for unprecedented economic activity.
