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 really like New York a lot, but I like it more as a place to visit. It was really difficult for me to live there. As a person from California, I'm still very neurotic and anxious, but in a more laid-back way.
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I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.
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I rely on some words that actually my husband said to me. He jokes about saying, "You know it's only darkest before it's totally black!" Even in my darkest hour - and my darkest hour was probably when I lost both my parents - I look to him and I see what he has endured, what he has overcome, what he is doing with his life, and just how he's lived his life.
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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.
