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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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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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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Reader, nothing is sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name. Nothing.
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Give time for a worthy cause (with eagerness) - you will be worthy and richly rewarded.
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There would always be a bunch of fucking grousers and nay-sayers being like 'that was uncalled for.'
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One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
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There's no good reason that reliably liberal states should be electing senators as friendly to Wall Street as Cory Booker.
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All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different.
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Cooking puts me at ease; it gives me control over what's happening, and I know that the finished product is gonna be good, so I'm gonna be satisfied. That's kind of how I keep myself grounded.
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When Shonda Rhimes calls, you feel like you get called into the principal's office a little bit, and you think, 'Maybe I better take that call.'
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I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.
