Christopher Hitchens Quotes
Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.
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When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me.
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To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.
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If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
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Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
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Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a collaborative process where you listen to the actor's input.
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Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court.
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Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
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In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother's Keeper, I'm personally committed to changing both perception and reality.
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Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.
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'She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,' cried the young Student; 'but in all my garden there is no red rose.'
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It wouldn't be possible because there aren't enough airports for all the men who'd want to flee the country.
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Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.
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You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.
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I've been down a long road;I'd become a stranger to myself.Digging in my heels and hoping time might be kinder if I wait it out.But nothing came from wanting.And I became so small and insecure.Didn't know the cost of all I'd lost till I found it fresh and new again.
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If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
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It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that's what I wanted to do.
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Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.
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Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
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Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.
