Linford Christie Quotes
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When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.
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What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
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When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial expression and reacting is difficult. Having said that, I think such challenges are good for learning.
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I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
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What we'd like to think of YouTube as is a part of Google with very overlapping goals and values. We're a fundamental part of the advertising business for Google.
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For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.
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I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.
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Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.
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I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
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I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy and adjust to the new regimen I was setting up for myself.
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If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.
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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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I don't make a big deal out of playing football at UGA to people who have interviewed me.
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I am very superstitious about toasts. I never toast with water, and I'm very careful to make eye contact with everyone I toast with.
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It's hard for me to find people to paint. There has got to be something about them that only I can see.
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When I did 'The Social Network', David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.
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There aren't always answers for the questions you're looking for, so I have to make peace with that sometimes.
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When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, that's fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was racist or sexist. If we avoid the demonization, disagreements can be positive.
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Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.
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I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.
