Chris Roberson Quotes
Getting the chance at 40 to make up stories that other people would draw and other people would then read is pretty weird.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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No two wars are identical.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
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In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking, 'exhaust every possibility.' Once you get to a certain place, it's like you just deliver everything you've got. Don't have any regrets. It pops up in my mind over and over and over again.
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I grew up with older brothers, adore them, can't imagine going through life without them, and I definitely think I draw on that love when I'm writing about siblings. It's so powerful, the jump-in-front-of-a-train-to-protect-them kind of love.
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When you are in a live-action movie, you have so many more options to express yourself. You can use your body and your gestures and facial expressions. When you are doing an animated movie, you really only have your voice.
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Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.
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I had a choice whether to live or die, and I chose to live.
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Getting the chance at 40 to make up stories that other people would draw and other people would then read is pretty weird.
