Christopher Bollen Quotes
My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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In the past, I used to tell everyone that I have never had a boyfriend, because I was still quite young. However, I cannot say the same thing now.
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There certainly are some good aspects to Common Core.
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I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.
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I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
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The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.
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My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the same street. I feel very special to have these amazing people in my life and if we hadn't all moved into this big house together I think I would have missed out on that, because we would have drifted apart.
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Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown; O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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I only work with people I like.
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The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
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When I worked with Bill Nighy on 'Wrath of the Titans,' he said to me, 'There's one thing you can promise me, and that's never, ever, ever read your reviews.'
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I write and teach creative nonfiction. I was a reporter.
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A lot of who I am is connected to my size, and I am so happy with who I am.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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Duke is the same way that Harper Row is a character who doesn't want to know who you are beneath the mask, and that makes her interesting. She'll show up and help Batman, but she never wants to know if he's Bruce Wayne.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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I'm built for whichever scheme they put me in.
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My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.
