Chris Avery Quotes
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
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If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it'll die because they don't go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you'll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you'll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.
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When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.
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You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.
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Ignorance is kind of bliss.
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I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.
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One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring.
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Some people think I am gay, which I think is awesome.
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So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.
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Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.
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I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.
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I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.
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There are lots of actors out there who are hugely, hugely talented and haven't got the breaks I've had.
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I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And with great confidence comes great freedom for the actor.
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It is interesting that people are trying to change the conventional methods
