Christopher Bollen Quotes
I'm convinced I was the only kid ever who had a Death on the Nile 1978 movie poster and a Murder on the Orient Express 1974 movie poster on his bedroom walls.
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When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
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I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.
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I love honest men, and a I love a man who is loyal to women.
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Four hundred is a lot. When I was young, I remember Kapil Dev getting it, and it was quite a big thing. An Indian had taken it. I feel honoured and proud that God has given me a chance to reach 400 wickets. It's a big thing for me; I don't know about others.
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Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
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I only started singing the Russian roles when I came west.
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Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.
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Let's learn from our peers and then beat them at their own game.
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If you want a product that's thicker with a bigger battery, it's also heavier, more costly, takes longer to charge.
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Environmentalists aren't nearly sensitive enough to the fact that they are messing around with struggling people and their livelihoods. They forget that the fishermen are the people with the most immediate vested interest in having a healthy sea.
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Our biggest catastrophe was that Dresden was destroyed in the war. But the message of the city is that wounds of war can heal, and people can live in peace.
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I'm just here for this one purpose, and that's to try and get better each and every day and try and win as much as I can, while I can.
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When dealing with illegal immigration, the answer is simple; enforce Constitutional mandates, and you will protect Floridians and the American people.
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The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
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As long as our kids can focus on playing their games and not worry about what everybody else is shooting at them and they take care of attacking the golf course, I think we'll be OK.
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What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.
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Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.
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[Answering the question 'If you had caused the end of the world, what would you do?'] I would try to fix it. I would go to bed on time and brush my teeth.
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I'm convinced I was the only kid ever who had a Death on the Nile 1978 movie poster and a Murder on the Orient Express 1974 movie poster on his bedroom walls.
