Chris Algieri (Christopher Mark Algieri) Quotes
We need to get more people watching boxing. I love this sport and anything we can do to help it is great.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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My life is studded with a series of coincidences.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
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There is nothing settled about a poet's identity. The becoming doesn't stop because the being has been achieved. They proceed together, attached in ways that are hard to be exact about.
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A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!
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The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors. TiVo! I was out there before TiVo came out, man.
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It is important that we women use our position as a platform to influence for good.
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
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Pour tromper un rival l'artifice est permis; on peut tout employer contres ses ennemis.
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I think of workshopping as a way to read your own work through the eyes of others - a scene that you write gets refracted by those around you, and suddenly you have several different readings of it, each with a different momentum for how it might be retooled or reshaped.
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If you're playing a character that someone doesn't like, that's okay, but if you're voicing your own opinions, they actually don't like you!
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If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.
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It's important to read books and see people who look like you. It helps you know that you are not the only one or the weird one because you're a black girl and you are not seeing anyone who looks like you in these books.
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I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.
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We need to get more people watching boxing. I love this sport and anything we can do to help it is great.
