Chris Slade (Christopher Slade Rees) Quotes
I come from the showbiz side of things. As I say, my father was a tap dancer. You do everything you can to entertain the public.
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My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.
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Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
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I see there is a lot of behaviour in men's fashion, which is systematic. It's a lot about all these kind of clothes that can be easily combined with each other, and it's less and less, I think, about making a fashion statement.
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The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.
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But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
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I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.
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The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.
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About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.
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A place of freedom is the best place to have the most creativity.
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If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.
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Air America Radio was thinking of hiring me, but they discovered something in my past that didn't sit well with them: radio experience.
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I've been through a lot of stuff.
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In the old days, a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it's seen as much more of an opportunity than a sellout, as a way to find fans who wouldn't have ordinarily come across their genre of music.
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Chiropractic solved my neck and shoulder pains; it put me back on my feet. I think chiropractic is great!
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My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up.
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six.
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My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he never knew who his father was. So he had a very different attitude to family and kids. I don't have any issues. I'm not suffering some secret angst.
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I come from the showbiz side of things. As I say, my father was a tap dancer. You do everything you can to entertain the public.
