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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When I sang my father's songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, 'Can I measure up?'
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What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
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What is important to me in my work is the identity that is hidden behind so-called reality. I search for a bridge from the given present tot the invisible, rather as a famous cabalist once said, 'If you wish to grasp the invisible, penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible'.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
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It's been ups and downs, it's been happy and sad, it's been terrifying and comforting
