Christopher Bollen Quotes

We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

Christopher Bollen

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• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Old
  • Lucky

• Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Want
  • Football
  • Cricket

• I think that horror, in general, is fairly popular. It's definitely popular in film. There's just not a lot of good horror on TV, so whenever there is good horror on TV, people rush to it.

  

  Oren Peli
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Looks
  • Face
  • Bored

• Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Bad
  • Taken
  • Old

• On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Work
  • Acting

• Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Media
  • Social Media
  • Tool

• Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.

  

  Yousef Munayyer
  • Accountability
  • Torture

• At Sussex University, I developed a system called WinLocX to help with the process of translating software into foreign languages.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Help
  • Process
  • Software

• Good Lord - if I couldn't multitask, I don't know what I'd do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Good
  • Know
  • Lord

• What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself. When they say we need to insulate economic policies from politics, they are in effect advocating the castration of democracy.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Want
  • Free
  • Democracy

• Communication services need interoperability to succeed - and Loopt is the first such service since SMS that is available across all major U.S. wireless carriers.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Service
  • Communication

• I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • God
  • Fear
  • Wisdom

• Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Mind
  • Action
  • Judging

• A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when you are seeking information, but I remind you of the wife who complained, 'When I ask John if he loves me, he thinks I am asking for information'.

  

  Edward Coke
  • Friend
  • Wife
  • Cool

• Now that I have found someone I'm feeling more alone Than I ever have before.

  

  Ben Folds
  • Feeling
  • Alone

• Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Education
  • Perfect
  • Greatness

• When you do your part, life just unfolds in ways that are so much better than you would have dreamed up on your own.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Life
  • Up

• A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

  

  Maurice Jarre
  • Movie

• I am a brush, the car is my track and the artist my canvas.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Artist
  • Car
  • Canvas

• I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Different
  • Important
  • Happy

• “No!” Patricia’s eyes flooded and she felt short of breath. “You can’t! You can’t!” And then she was running, careening, with the red bucket in one hand. She could hear her sister behind her, smashing branches.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Running
  • Sister
  • Hear

• I always told people in the private sector, 'You can be the smartest person in the world, you can have the very best ideas, but if you can't sell them and you can't get other people to work with you, you're not going to succeed.'

  

  Henry Paulson
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Lost
  • Artist
  • Generations