Chris Shays Quotes
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.
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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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It is not when he is working in the office but when he is lying idly on the sand that his soul utters, 'Life is beautiful.'
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Kazan is a performer's director, the best director I ever worked with... Most actors don't get any help from directors. Emotional help, if you're playing an emotional part. Kazan is the only one I know who really gives you help.
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A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.
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I started swimming when I was four because my brother wanted to join a swim team, and I wanted to do what he did. They said I had to be six, but if I could swim a lap, then I could participate. So I swam a lap, and the rest is history.
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Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.
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The good thing about movies is that they're subjective. You can connect to different themes depending on your own perspective.
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More is going to rest on his (Hastert's) shoulders
