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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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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I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.
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Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.
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When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.
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I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write.
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Study and practice are both very important, but they must go hand in hand. Faith without knowledge is not sufficient. Faith needs to be supported by reason. However intellectual understanding that is not applied in practice is also of little use. Whatever we learn from study we need to apply sincerely in our daily lives.
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It's been ups and downs, it's been happy and sad, it's been terrifying and comforting
