Chris Chaney Quotes
It's a better environment. The people and the community are more supportive. At Laurinburg, in four years we had a lot of success. We reached our potential. It was time for a new challenge.
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If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'
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Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.
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The idea of the European community is never face a war again.
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I was raised by a family that there was no, 'You're a girl so you have a limited number of options.' In my community, that was never anything that happened.
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When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold.
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Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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I don't want to be involved with an actor because I know how they are. I've had problems in the past being with guys who haven't had any success or haven't made as much money, and it's very uncomfortable.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are limited, and electron microscopy filled the gap, and so the discovery of quasicrystals could have been discovered only by electron microscopy, and the community of crystallographers, for several years, was not willing to listen.
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As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country's energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells.
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I want everyone to live to their full potential without having to fear someone will try to knock them down or discriminate against them.
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Whenever you're successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product.
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Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.
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We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns.
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The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'
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I never get used to going out and seeing 20, 30,000 people that are there to see us play. It's kind of surreal.
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I learned more from my dad by osmosis than by any talk we ever had. He was the most reliable person I've ever met.
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I put my hand on my chest. I can feel my heart beating. My heart is working. I'm pleased. I'm still alive.
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Our minds do understand that people of all races find genuine love in many places. We dig that the world is full of amazing options.
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It's a better environment. The people and the community are more supportive. At Laurinburg, in four years we had a lot of success. We reached our potential. It was time for a new challenge.
