Christian D. Larson Quotes
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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People trash talk me.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.
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If I find cool, open-minded people, want to do unique one-of-a-kind kind of project, I'll do it as long as I can.
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I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.
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Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
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In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.
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I had a visit from an artist friend who basically said, "Your paintings are wonderful. Now stop." It did resonate with me. It hit on the percolating need for change that was already there. I got a little push. I did a group of the paintings early on that were among the best. It was sort of beginner's luck with these.
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It's not something that's at the forefront of my mind, but I think I'd regret it if I didn't have children.
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Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.
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The secret of the master mind is found wholly in the use of imagination.
