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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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 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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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
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We have to tokenize in order to normalize.
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Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.
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The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
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When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.
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Don't blow your load on the first stroke, fellas.
