Adam Christopher Quotes
The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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I don't do anything political on Sundays.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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My instinct is to be very controlling.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
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Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.
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Nature is what we see, The Hill, the Afternoon- Squirrel, Eclipse, the Bumble-bee, Nay-Nature is Heaven.Nature is what we hear, The Bobolink, the Sea- Thunder, the Cricket- Nay,-Nature is Harmony.Nature is what we know But have no art to say, So impotent our wisdom is To Her simplicity.
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Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.
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I love the new technology. New things give you a reason to want to go to the studio. New challenges mean you have to keep up, you know?
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The whole thrust of yogic philosophical and scientific inquiry has therefore been to examine the nature of being, with a view to learning to respond to the stresses of life without so many tremors and troubles.
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The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.
