Christopher Bollen Quotes
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I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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Cuban Americans have little in common with immigrants from Mexico and Central America, and often their priorities don't align. If it seems like Cuban Americans don't have to play by the same rules as everyone else, that's probably because they don't.
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I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it's orthogonal - there's no extra information than if they put together a website and have bunch of fans who love coming and seeing what they're doing.
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I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.
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I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'
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I like listening to Beyonce, and I like Jason Derulo. I love his new song 'Don't Wanna Go Home.'
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There's something about trying to figure out why someone is doing something that on the outside is horrible - what drives them to do that? What could drive any human being to that kind of behaviour?
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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I'm able to inspire other people, to see the potential of a career, they can look to me and see that they can do it.
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If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won.
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The spirit's there and that's not just my imagination. I think if you look at surveys and attitudes among young people, you see it.
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I had 12 years in the Army before I ever faced combat.
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The generation gaps are becoming more and more extreme. It used to be a generation gap would be 20-plus years. Now, because technology and specifically communication technology is changing so rapidly, you have generation gaps that are like five years, ten years.
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I had been going out to Orient for several years.
