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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I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects.
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If you want the best odds of getting the best apartment, spend 37% of your apartment hunt eleven days, if you’ve given yourself a month for the search noncommittally exploring options. Leave the checkbook at home; you’re just calibrating. But after that point, be prepared to immediately commit—deposit and all—to the very first place you see that beats whatever you’ve already seen. This is not merely an intuitively satisfying compromise between looking and leaping. It is the provably optimal solution.
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I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.
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I assume that in great men whose names I dare not mention, the anarchic element was very powerful. You see, when fundamental changes are to occur in law, custom, and society, they presuppose a great distancing from established principles. And the anarch, should he take any action, is capable of working this lever.
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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.
