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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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
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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 want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.
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I think you always have to be innovating and adapting and improving. You can't stay the same.
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In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.
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I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.
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I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
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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.
