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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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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What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace and egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, and there you have the condition of peace in this world of men.
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By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.
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Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.
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I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.
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Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks.
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My daughter loves to be surprised. And she loves to surprise me. She loves to create games where either one or both of us are surprised, or go away, and then come back. And she loves to play them over and over, and over again. The combo is familiar. Go away. Come back. Surprise! She is only two. I better get used to this.
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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.
