Yiannis Chryssomallis (Yanni) Quotes
I believed that anything was possible, or at least because I didn't put together everyone else's 'facts' and believe that winning was impossible.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.
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Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.
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Music critics are, for the most part, bitter people who are intent at dragging people down for being successful at what they want to do, which is probably music. The oddity of being a critic is: You don't get a diploma, you just decide you're a critic. If someone listens to your opinion rather than their own, it's their mistake. Any critic's top 10, any year, it's something controversial or something that will make them look hipper-than-thou. The whole critic game, we've never played.
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Psychologists and psychiatrists send me cards and say, 'Hey, I love your books.'
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When I fell for Johnny Galecki, we both knew immediately that we had this connection, and that was it.
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A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.
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I believed that anything was possible, or at least because I didn't put together everyone else's 'facts' and believe that winning was impossible.
