Adrian Chiles Quotes
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
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I think that probably the time that people stopped thinking of Starbuck as 'a woman' was when they stopped thinking of the old show.
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People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.
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There is something addictive in space that makes you want to go back - like the mountain climbers who want to go back to the Himalayas although their fingers were cut by frostbite.
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I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.
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When the United States media is paying attention, that's when you're really representing your country.
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If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.
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I played volleyball and basketball, and I did track and volleyball in college.
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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.
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When you're not being heard - I can't tell you what to do when you're not being heard. I do think there is a way to move in love and get things done, though.
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The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.
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The countries with the greatest problems have the kindest people.
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I don't know any real jiu-jitsu or judo or anything. I do movie kung fu. With that, you can fake a punch, but you can't really fake a judo throw. You can get help from the person who you're throwing because they can kind of launch themselves.
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Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.
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The public discourse online is not done through the polite language of debate.
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My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.
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I'm work to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful.
