Chris Solinsky Quotes
It's been ups and downs, it's been happy and sad, it's been terrifying and comforting
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
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I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
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I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.
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A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.
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I enjoy not knowing everything about a musician I like. At a time when you can find out a popstar's favourite animal, I think it's more exciting not to know. I just don't want to tell everyone everything.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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I regret all of my books.
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You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses.
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I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.
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It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
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It's been ups and downs, it's been happy and sad, it's been terrifying and comforting
