Christopher Bollen Quotes
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
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I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher told me to read it. And I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to read a whole book by myself!' It's not that I couldn't read, it's just that I didn't really like books very much. But the book that she lent me I really enjoyed.
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Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.
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The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.
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Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
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Let's put it this way: I would consider my skiing ability to be far superior to my skating ability. And, in fact, my 10-year-old grandson, who's a AAA squirt, can skate circles around me.
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'The September Issue' is really a film about Anna Wintour's relationship with long time 'Vogue' Creative Director Grace Coddington. The two of them have been working together for two decades, and the extraordinary symbiosis between them has left an indelible mark on the fashion industry.
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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
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My main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard!
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An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
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It's hard to actually take details from your personal life and apply them a scene because, as much as you can identify with a feeling, you just get muddled. As soon as you start bringing your own stuff in, it's like, 'No, that's not right.' You're playing a different person. You can relate, but you have to leave that stuff at the door.
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My point is that we much decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves . . . In all respects, culturally, politically, socially, we must re-define ourselves and our lives, in our own terms.
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You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.
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The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.
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The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.
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Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.
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I was obsessed with Agatha Christie in sixth grade.
