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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There is no true poetry unconcious inspiration.
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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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Boys like it when you're mean. That's what I'm best at. I make them feel so bad about themselves, all out of fun.
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Let's learn from our peers and then beat them at their own game.
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Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked.
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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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I like it when I strut.
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In tennis, a lot of parents are accused of driving their kids into tennis. I would say I'm the opposite: I drove my parents into it. They didn't take it that seriously until I was about 11 or 12 years old, when they realised I had an opportunity to go pro.
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Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.
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At one point in the mid-Eighties I shared a promoter with the Smiths. One night, we were sitting backstage when Morrissey burst in, utterly distraught, sobbing his heart out. Turns out someone had thrown a sausage at him on stage during 'Meat Is Murder.'
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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.
