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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It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
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28% of the greenhouse gasses come from eating meat and from raising cattle, so we can do a much better job. … Luckily we know that you can get your protein source from many different ways, you can get it through vegetables if you are a vegetarian. I have seen many body builders that are vegetarian and they get strong and healthy.
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I'd love for there to be a situation - a world in which that's just not even a question anymore. We are all filmmakers - different stripes, genders, sexual orientations, colors - and our work can be taken on its own terms. I'm really looking forward to that day.
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I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.
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The idea that you waited for that particular issue to come out, but then you planned your TV viewing for the coming season, it was a completely different world. And I grew up in Fort Lauderdale, so there was a TV critic writing for the Miami Herald, Jack Anderson, that was very influential. Just to read, every morning, somebody who cared about TV as much as I did - they were an adult, and they were clearly being paid for it. That was an "a ha!" moment for me before I was even 10.
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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.
