Chris Wallace Quotes
You definitely have to play real games and, through trial and error, get a feel for the game.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.
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My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad's farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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A lot of people I've played with see me as a scorer and a shooter. I'm still fast and everything like that, but then, when they see me dunk, it's like 'Oh, damn.'
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Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
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I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.
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I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered.
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I don't care how small the game. I want to win.
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One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.
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Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.
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You definitely have to play real games and, through trial and error, get a feel for the game.
