Christopher McCormick Quotes
There's a lot of things in the works and some things pan out and some don't. But to stay on top of your game, you've got to try out new things.
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The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
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I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.
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I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.
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I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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They call people who love London 'Anglophiles' and people who love France 'Francophiles.' I'd be the New York version of that.
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I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
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For the 'Riddick' character, I try to get as ruthless as possible, and I want to be a machine.
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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
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I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it.
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Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
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Every scene is on the table to collaborate on, to pick apart, to try a million different ways. Usually, what ends up occurring in the end is something that no single person knew would happen or had planned for.
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If there's one thing any mom should have for fall, it's a peplum top.
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My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.
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As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
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There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.
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As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, 'All right, well, I'd like to headline a tour,' and then when I get there, we'll see what my next goal is.
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The first game is always the most difficult, for the nerves you have before you begin to play.
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In some respects, the video-game business is a lot like the razor business, which follows a simple model: Give away the razor, gouge 'em on the price of the blades.
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I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.
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There's a lot of things in the works and some things pan out and some don't. But to stay on top of your game, you've got to try out new things.
