William Henry Chase Quotes
The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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Being a conservative in Hollywood is like walking into a shooting range with a bull's-eye attached to your body. There are more of us than you would believe, but if you want to keep working, you feel like you have to keep quiet.
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We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
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Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that breaks to the right can actually make you dizzy. I've long thought that right-breaking putts are a major contributor to mental and physical ill health.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.
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I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.
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I don't want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
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My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.
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Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
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The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.
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In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.
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I came from a crew, and to me, all the guys I rapped with were better than me, so I was surprised when I was the breakout one. It was definitely a cool thing.
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Action movies today are going to so fast, you can't say you're going to do everything faster and faster.
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
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I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, 'Geez, this is ridiculous.' You just see through all that sort of stuff. I never liked those Deep Purples or those sort of things. I always hated it. I always thought it was a poor man's Led Zeppelin.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.
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The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.
