Chris Prentiss Quotes
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.
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Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.
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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
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I want to do stories that inspire people.
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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
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If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.
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It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!
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I don't really want to make this sound depressing, but I will say that I didn't really have my first kiss until really, really late.
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My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through.
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What I see now is the consumerisation of IT. I don't want my company to tell me that I have to use a BlackBerry or I have to use a Windows phone. I just want to use the phone I want and have it all work.
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
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Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.
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When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.
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Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
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We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.
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I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.
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People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'
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Sadly, half of marriages end in divorce. Half of my girl friends and male friends have been through one, and their kids are doing great. There's no shame around it - unless you want to project that on to yourself - but certainly there's no longer cultural shame. Everyone is walking through it.
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Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.
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You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want.
