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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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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I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.
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I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.
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I feel that every professional is the art school for the next guy. I feel that maybe a lot of the dynamism in my own work, having been felt by the rest of the artists, they'll react to it and put elements of that in their own work, feeling that it'll help it.
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It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.
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More is going to rest on his (Hastert's) shoulders
