Christopher Allsopp Quotes
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.
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People love teen movies because everyone can relate.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
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When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.
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I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me.
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ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
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There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.
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Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
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My first job as premier will be to go back to basics.
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Don't blow your load on the first stroke, fellas.
