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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My belief system is that you laugh at racism, and that's how it goes away.
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Broadway is a definite symbol of New York. It's classic New York.
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Everyone posts everything in real time as it happens.
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You know what it would just be amazing to be remembered, you know like a mum telling a daughter ‘the boyband of my time, One Direction, they just had fun and they’re just normal guys but terrible, terrible dancers.’
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Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.
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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.
