Chris Black Quotes
I had always prided myself on being sure, always confident in my decisions and my actions, but now I was questioning everything.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.
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If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
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When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.
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I would like my kids to go to college and be exposed to the real world and to make their own decisions and find their own path instead of sending them somewhere where they would be creatively conditioned for one life path or another.
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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
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It all comes down to taking control of your life, education enables you to read, reading gives you power, the power to make decisions that you want to make.
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I had always prided myself on being sure, always confident in my decisions and my actions, but now I was questioning everything.
