Chris Geddes Quotes
We were staying in this smart apartment complex which we thought was this little artistic community. There were some lads on location for a movie. We saw them every day, always filming in the same room. It only dawned on us on the last day that this was the bedroom and the film was a porno.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.
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I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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I think it's a mistake to miss out on joy just because you have pain.
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The need to impress others causes half the world's woes. Don't add to them. Be real, not impressive.
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If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.
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In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life.
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Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.
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Nothing comes sailing by itself.
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All theater is unpredictable. That's the definition of theater.
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I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.
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We've built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.
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I remember watching the summer Olympics as a kid and knew that I wanted to be an Olympian one day. At the time, snowboarding wasn't in the Olympics, but I knew that wouldn't stop me.
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It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one.
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I learned so much about being an actor by being a director. More than I ever thought I would.
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Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.
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There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.
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When I cleared out Moscow apartment after stepping down as president, they found all kinds of wiring in the walls. It turned out that they had been spying on me all along.
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Disease preys on a weak and malnourished mind.
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I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them.
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Givers advance the world. Takers advance themselves and hold the world back
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We were staying in this smart apartment complex which we thought was this little artistic community. There were some lads on location for a movie. We saw them every day, always filming in the same room. It only dawned on us on the last day that this was the bedroom and the film was a porno.
