Christopher Bollen Quotes
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.
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I'm fighting hard; I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over people to get where I'm going, and I would really like to give back, especially to my mom, who was there for me when I was a kid.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul.
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My wife and I are raising five children, and it's tough between two people, let alone with one that's working full-time and is stressed out and coming home to a lot of difficulties.
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I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
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If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.
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Writing can be a tough gig. Whenever you do something in which you put yourself out there - if that becomes the focus of your life, you miss the point of living. You've really got to get the grounding of family and the things that are important in your life and make that your focus.
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I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.
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So rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on as background music. It's kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music; it's very disposable. But, that doesn't mean there aren't a great number of artists who are doing things to change that.
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I never understood that when I heard people retire - they said they missed being around the guys. I don't have a need to make a play in the ninth inning of a game anymore. But being on the inside and being part of a team is something that you really do value and you really do miss.
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The biggest lie in the world is in answer to the question, 'How are you?' People usually say, 'I'm fine,' but that's mostly bull. Everyone wants to display being perfect. They tell themselves and their friends, 'I drive this car, I own this house, I'm fine.' People ball up into these tight wads of repression.
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People aren't doing whodunits anymore.
