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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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
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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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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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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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Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.
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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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The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.
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What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
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Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.
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I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.
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You definitely have to play real games and, through trial and error, get a feel for the game.
