Christopher Allsopp Quotes
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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I was a complete outsider in high school.
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I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
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I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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There was a time in my life when one aspect of my lifestyle called for watching a lot of television.
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True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
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Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.
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That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to follow what I want to do as my dream. How do I become independent from everybody else?
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Everything is very individual for me in the way that I work; I don't just show a rotating rack of clothes.
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I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring now.
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Our thoughts are certainly part of us; they come from us, but we are not our thoughts. Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to yourself, 'I am not going to think today; I am too tired'? No, of course not. Just as breathing happens and is constant, thoughts happen, and they are also constant.
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What's Princeton doing today?
