Chris Pine Quotes
My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.
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My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.
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I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.
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I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.
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The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.
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I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
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I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
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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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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
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I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.
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Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.
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My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me.
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.
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My family is not only not religious, but my parents are both - they're secularists. My father is actually an atheist and feels very strongly about it.
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If you look across a 30-year career in the company, I've executed in a wide arrange of environments. In financial services all around the world, in industrial businesses, and in the acquisition and strategy work.
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I grew up two train stops from where A Tribe Called Quest grew up, and one stop from Nas.
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Non-pantheist models for god seem almost completely untenable to me, though not without interest.
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My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.
