Chris Campanioni Quotes
It's not enough to say it; you would need to take it out of your mouth, you would need to become it. You would need to become what you were born to be.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.
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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
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Even the best scientists are often insecure and feel the need for recognition.
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I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.
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Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
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It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself.
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Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.
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So I would say Reagan was the best, and certainly Clinton the worst.
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I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.
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I'm someone who says what he thinks.
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Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace; take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil smelling-place.
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For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
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Marriage is the agreement to let a family happen.
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Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.
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It's not enough to say it; you would need to take it out of your mouth, you would need to become it. You would need to become what you were born to be.
