Christopher Bollen Quotes

I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.

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• I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Job
  • First
  • Old

• I have had that same experience where there are several people who have come up in my life at the right time and have made critical contributions to how I see the world and how I see myself.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Choice
  • Bird

• I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • World
  • Great
  • Long

• If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Money
  • Man
  • Meet

• The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Real
  • Truth

• Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Time
  • God
  • Free

• Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for a long time, we were totally winging it.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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  • Long
  • Process

• My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• I met a woman who went through a very difficult personal crisis, and she was really bed-ridden for a long time, and 'Friends' got her through. I met a woman who had a brain injury while living in Europe, and 'Friends' got her through.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Brain

• We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Time
  • Car
  • Racing

• We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • World
  • Love
  • Television

• If you watch dogs play, they run and they fight, but they don't fight to hurt each other. They just play. And that's been me my entire life.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Hurt
  • Fight

• I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Me
  • Human
  • Genius

• As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.

  

  Taylor Schilling
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  • Think
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• You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• I personally believe that this theory that Darwin came up with was something that was encouraged by the adversary, and it has become what is scientifically, politically correct.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Up
  • Believe

• I'm someone who started in the theater and really couldn't stand repeating the show. My favorite part of acting is the five or six weeks of rehearsal that you get. I like doing previews; I like the opening week because my friends and family come, and then after that, I don't want to do it anymore.

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • Family
  • Friends

• Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I am constantly hustling and finding new things. You try to manage so you don't look back and see huge gaps of time that you missed with your family.

  

  James Marsden
  • Time
  • Family

• Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Giving
  • Beer
  • Dinner

• I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.

  

  Christopher Bollen
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