Chris Prentiss Quotes
What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
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Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.
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I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
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Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence.
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Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
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You can't get anymore classic than being a part of a Disney animated film. To me, that's something I can have in my back pocket for the rest of my life. I'll be able to show it to my kids. I'll be walking around Disneyland, and it'll be bizarre to shake hands with Rapunzel.
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Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I'm deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I'm out there talking about their big choice for the future.
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Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.
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And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.
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My mom does mine because I know I would go tweezer-crazy and wind up with no eyebrows at all.
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I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.
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I like what we've got at quarterback. I like our depth there. You know, we'll see.
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somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.
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You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.
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The most pressure I felt was for the first 'Paranormal Activity,' because when it was released, whether it was going to be a hit or not, I knew it was going to be a life-altering event for me.
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All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
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What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.
