Chris Stokes Quotes
I feel that I will be more of a feature director, and I will go away completely from videos. I want to do features and have written several of them. I'm looking to be more like a Steven Spielberg.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.
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We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.
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I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is.
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I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
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I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.
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'Until Friday Night' is the first book in my new young adult series, 'The Field Party.'
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Music isn't selling like it used to, but the one thing you can't steal or download is a live show experience or a T-shirt.
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Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.
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I grew up in church and on the block; the best of both worlds.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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To this day, after twenty years and four subsequent revisions, the DSM and the entire system based on it fail victims of child abuse and neglect—just as they ignored the plight of veterans before PTSD was introduced back in 1980.
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We knew that all the protein-coding bits of genes do is to produce protein - they have to have instructions to turn them on and off. Those sequences lie well outside the protein-coding sequences, sometimes thousands, tens of thousands of bases away.
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Brains aren't everything, but they're important.
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I feel that I will be more of a feature director, and I will go away completely from videos. I want to do features and have written several of them. I'm looking to be more like a Steven Spielberg.
