Chris Shays Quotes
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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I'm not a wimpy kid at all. I don't care what other people think - I only care what I think about myself.
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I never starved myself.
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I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
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I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
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I'm glad that people know my military service. But, like this nation, we are more than our military. And the rest of our story is the same as the rest of my story.
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Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
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Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality.
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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
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'I always play with everybody,' said Honoré. 'It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.'
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The sea is superb, but the cliffs don't match up to those at Fecamp. Here I'll be certain to do more boats.
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No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
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Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.
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We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.
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I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.
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Goya, Miró, Matisse, Bosch and Klee.
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An old minister explained the smudges on his sermon outlines by saying they were caused by sweat and tears. And without those two marks, a sermon is not a sermon.
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Miramax wanted the buzz to spread, but slowly, so people would be clamoring for it, ... Chicago.
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More is going to rest on his (Hastert's) shoulders
