Arthur Christiansen Quotes
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Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
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Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.
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I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.
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When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.
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I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
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I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
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Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to someone, my friend said, 'You know, 'gullible' isn't even in the dictionary.' And I said, 'Really?' As I was saying 'Really?' I will acknowledge that I then realized what was happening, but that's how bad I am.
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The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
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To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.
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I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.
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Dementia is such a terrifying thing for all of us, and we are particularly bad at coping with old people in this country.
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There's no good guys and bad guys.
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It is a stupid observation, but the Labour Party are not an smart lot, are they? I mean, if all those people were born in the same town, you would blame bad parenting, wouldn't you all?
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I first conceived of my far-future setting 'Punktown' in 1980, and though it contains 'punk' in its name, the term 'cyberpunk' hadn't been coined yet. I took my inspiration strictly from punk music.
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The day you feel like you've won, you need to drive out of the parking lot and not come back.
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I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.
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Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.
