Chandler Riggs Quotes
I'm a teen boy, so I like seeing blood and guts. I know it's fake, but I'm having fun.
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.
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My opinion, having done this now for two cycles, is I think the national media really likes me and likes what I have to say. But, at the end of the day, 'He's a Libertarian,' and that denotes some loose screws, maybe.
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As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
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We are all terminal.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
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Post 9/11, brown people had this force pushing us together. It's like we're all being looked at with fear and suspicion; we're all being targeted, so how do you support yourself and your communities?
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Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.
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Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
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In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.'
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You don't have any kind of control ultimately. Things are just going to happen as they will. And I think your best option sometimes is just to react rather than try to plan everything out in advance.
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Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of people love to live vicariously through those characters.
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I had my little boy, and I took three years off to have him and be a mom.
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My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go back to the bakery in her old neighborhood of Inwood and get special shamrock cookies. Hawaiian Punch was served and we had shamrock napkins. It was a lot of fun.
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In late 1999, I was walking down Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks with my late producing partner Sharyn Lane after a day of editing 'Sordid Lives.' We passed the Psychic Book Store and decided to go in and get a reading. We weren't believers, but what the hell? We needed a sign.
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I'm a teen boy, so I like seeing blood and guts. I know it's fake, but I'm having fun.
