Christian Rudder Quotes
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.
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Value is what you get.
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Reality is what you can count on.
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You have good days and bad days.
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When you broaden the little box that you've been living in for so long, it can be very uncomfortable at first.
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The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
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I'm obviously not a guy who focuses on weight too much. But for certain jobs, you have to gain or lose weight.
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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.
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I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
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You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.
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You write how you write, wherever you write.
