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 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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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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MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.
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It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.
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If you're happy with who you are, that's going to show, and you don't have to apologize for anything.
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Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?
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I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.
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A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.
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The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
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I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with child abuse. So if you're constantly putting yourself in an environment where you're checking up on social economics or homelessness problems, if you keep yourself aware of it, you don't really have a day off.
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You write how you write, wherever you write.
