Chris Terrio Quotes
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your friends invite you to, and you meet this person, and your life is turned upside down, and the next day you can't stop thinking about them. That's violent. Hopefully, it's for the better, but it's a violent thing.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.
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There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.
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Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.
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Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.
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Our union must know no clime, boundary, or nationality… let us hold together under all climes and in every country…
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I need eclectic people in my life.
