Christopher Bollen Quotes
There are certain moments where artwork might seem like it's part of someone's career - if you really know the art world - , but I did my best to prevent that overlap.

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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
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I don't think you can beat your audience over the head with hard-hitting cartoons day after day after day.
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As far as the U.S. economy is concerned, I always believe that the U.S. economy is solidly based, not only in a material sense, but more importantly, the United States has the strength of scientific and technological talent, and managerial expertise.
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We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
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We have Sunday morning breakfast before church. I don't do the dishes, but I do cook. I'm the griller.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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'Job Killer.' Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies.
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I have gotten to travel the world and experience all these incredible things thanks to my career.
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Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.
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'And you actually were cuddly,' said Carn. 'No offense, but you were spunky.' 'If that's your word for 'bratty little asshole,' said Dink mildly.
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A private ball this was called...but Lord! my dear Sir, I believe I saw half the world!
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I don't want to be conducting Mahler with my head stuffed full of 10 million notes from other composers.
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My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.
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The whole 'Electronica' project is about the ambiguous relationship we have with technology: on the one side, we have the world in our pocket; on the other, we are spied on constantly.
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There are just lots of possibilities in the world...I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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There are certain moments where artwork might seem like it's part of someone's career - if you really know the art world - , but I did my best to prevent that overlap.