Arthur Christiansen Quotes
Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.
Quotes to Explore
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
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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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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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I never felt the need to introduce all the obstacles in my past when I say, 'Hello, my name is Nate.' But at the same time, I've never hidden from it.
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I wasn't really the most charming person, socially – it took me a long time to develop my people skills – but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
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I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.
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He who stops being better stops being good.
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The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.
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Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other.
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I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.
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The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
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I would say that, of course, it is wrong to objectify women. But at the same time, entertainment should not be inter-mingled with commodification.
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I want to be in a stable relationship and have kids by the time I'm 30.
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It's good to fight with your brothers, and it's good to tease them to give them advice.
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I was just, like, all I want to do is be really good at something. Really, really good at something, so people are vaguely impressed by me.
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It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.
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I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.
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I used to like humorous people in the past, but these days, I like serious people more.
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I always love listening to Bob Dylan. 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of my favorite albums.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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If I venture into the water in a bikini, the sight of my melanin-deficient Michigan belly might attract beluga whales. Sure, I could secretly live among them and learn their ancient ways, but I couldn't keep that kind of ruse up forever.
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Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.
