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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If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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I'm not a perfect human being.
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You definitely have to play real games and, through trial and error, get a feel for the game.
