Chris Pine Quotes
On red carpets, as people throw questions at you, you try and answer as quickly as possible.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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In general, I hate films that are overtly either very masculine or very feminine, you know? The same way that I don't like a war movie about soldiers smashing people's heads. But a chick flick I like would be Cassavetes' movies. 'A Woman Under the Influence,' 'Husbands.'
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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
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I think we've done that. But it's not something you really notice, 'cause I've always thought the people here have always done their best, and they continue to do their best. They just might do it a little bit differently.
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You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways.
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On red carpets, as people throw questions at you, you try and answer as quickly as possible.
