Christopher Bollen Quotes
Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
Nate Berkus
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
Daniel Dennett
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
J Mascis
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
Vicente del Bosque
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
Katee Sackhoff
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
Xavier Becerra
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
Ramana Maharshi
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
Hanya Yanagihara
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
Hailee Steinfeld
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
Samuel Johnson
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There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
Harold Ramis
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I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
Laura Carmichael
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I guess music is very global.
Yuna
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
Ma Jian
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I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.
Taio Cruz
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I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
Jack Prelutsky
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When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream.
Patrick Demarchelier
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I personally like to do independent films.
Famke Janssen
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When you are healthy mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually - when you're doing well, you're likely to do good things in life.
Andrew Cherng
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Facing a landscape annihilated by the light, to remain serene supposes a temper I do not have. The sun is my purveyor of black thoughts; and summer the season when I have always reconsidered my relations with this world and with myself, to the greatest prejudice of both.
Emil Cioran
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The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.
William Gibson
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There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves.
L. Ron Hubbard
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Charlie asks her for a Perrier with lime. She says that San Pellegrino is what they have. He says it's all the same to him. Fancy water is fancy water.
John Updike
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Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.
Christopher Bollen