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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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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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
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Because if you have a strong foundation like we have, then you can build or rebuild anything on it. But if you've got a weak foundation you can't build anything.
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You name him. I beat him.
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Most public officials work hard to serve the public good and abide by Oregon's ethics laws.
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You write how you write, wherever you write.
