Chris Slade (Christopher Slade Rees) Quotes
We always got on as people, so it wasn’t that different. Everybody got a bit older, including myself, but it felt great.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.
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All of my high school issues are resolved!
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I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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I've been engaged a couple times.
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Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.
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Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
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The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.
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I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.
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In a relationship I'm a very loving person, emotional and sensitive.
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There is a latent anger in a lot of people that went to boarding school at an early age. I was eight. And I loved it over the five years, but I think the adjustments for eight-year-olds are a lot. And I think it informs who you are for a long, long time.
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The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
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Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.
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I love brunch. Brunch is my favorite meal.
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My thing about looking good is that it should be the character. If I'm playing a character who's concerned about his body - an athlete, say - I'll get in shape. If I'm playing a character who doesn't or wouldn't, I don't. I almost never get in shape for a movie, even though I know it would be a good career move.
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As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.
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The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama's view, America would subsume itself under a fuzzy internationalism in which the international community, which I think is a fiction, governs itself through the U.N.
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I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.
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We always got on as people, so it wasn’t that different. Everybody got a bit older, including myself, but it felt great.
