Chris Solinsky Quotes
I tape my list of goals, both large and small, above my bed so I can see them when I wake up. This holds me accountable.
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Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.
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The nightmare of a film career, or at least the challenge of one, is that you're rarely going to get the opportunity to explore character because once people see you in one thing, you know, they want to see that again.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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I don't think limits.
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.
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I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.
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I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.
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I am not allowing myself to get carried away.
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I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.
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Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.
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I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success... where have you been the last 20 years?
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Fashion is about good energy. It's about feelings. That's what I have to give the people, good energy and good feelings.
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If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.
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We must continue to fight for funding for health technologies so that they can continue to do what they do best - save lives - but also because they confer a real benefit to America's economy.
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The function of a guideline isn't to tell you what kids have actually experienced; it's to provide goals.
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When I look at founders and CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Brian Chesky at Airbnb and Sebastian Thrun at Udacity, these are companies that are creating extraordinary social good and extraordinary economic and educational empowerment, all within with context of a for-profit model.
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I tape my list of goals, both large and small, above my bed so I can see them when I wake up. This holds me accountable.
