Chip Heath Quotes
The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.
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Films are not the sole area in my life. Films are a passion. But it's not like I'll die if I don't get another movie. I'll grow, I'll flourish, I'll learn something new, but I'll always do something that I like. If I get the right film, I'll do it. I will not compromise for anything else.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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I definitely agree with choices for women, but I do not agree with choices for women when they eliminate choices for men. Rather, I think that the sexes need to make choices that lead to the maximum amount of win-win for both sexes.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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I want to be happy, to look back and feel I danced well at the end of my career and didn't dwindle off. It would be too sad.
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
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A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
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You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?
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Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.
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My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.
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We tend to use knowledge as therapy.
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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.
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Try as much as you can to mention death. For if you were having hard times in your life, then it would give you more hope and would ease things for you. And if you were having abundant affluence of living in luxury, then it would make it less luxurious.
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When a man puts me a question, I judge of his intelligence.
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Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.
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It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.
