Adam Christopher Quotes
That's the most amazing thing about writing, whether it's in prose or comics: that you can create something from nothing, and suddenly they come to life, like they've always been there.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.
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I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.
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How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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I don't feel when I'm writing that I'm drawing from any other writer, but of course I must be. The writers I've admired have been not so very different from myself: Evelyn Waugh, for example, that kind of crystalline prose. And I've always admired W. Somerset Maugham more than any other writer.
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If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment - now and not later.
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Dum taxat, rerum magnarum parva potest resexemplare dare et vestigia notitiai.
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While the circumnavigation of the solar system seems farfetched, it may not be once the problem of effective anti-gravitational control is solved.
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That's the most amazing thing about writing, whether it's in prose or comics: that you can create something from nothing, and suddenly they come to life, like they've always been there.
