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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I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.
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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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What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
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It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.
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I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats.
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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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For my first week as a new boy at Radley College, back in the summer of 1979, I was followed around by a film crew.
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Institutions should focus on educating against clashes of culture and the promotion of a culture of tolerance and peace.
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Each typeface is a piece of history, like a chip in a mosaic that depicts the development of human communication. Each typeface is also a visual record of the person who created it - his skill as a designer, his philosophy as an artist, his feeling for... the details of each letter and the resulting impressions of an alphabet or a text line.
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Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.
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I don't want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but something that lingers. The idea is to have the images revisited. I want it to be something that also enhances the soul. I want the moment of pleasure to produce an attachment.
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The Bahamas is headed for unprecedented economic activity.
