Chris Weitz Quotes
The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.
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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
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It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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I liked 'Star Wars,' but I wasn't an uberfan like many people are.
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Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.
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I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.
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When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.
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The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!
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I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.
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Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.
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Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.
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I try to be very honest in my writing. It's amazing, though, to think that people are responding to what we do, but it's okay if they're responding in a positive way too, because I think just creating anything at all to put out there is a gift.
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I don't know how people do this waxing thing. Now I just have all these bumpy ingrown hairs.
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I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a Modest Mouse song' or 'This is an Ugly Casanova song.' The people who were open to it not being a Modest Mouse record liked it.
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Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
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If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God, but because she is doing her work - as a novelist.
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At every turn, Molly Antopol's gorgeous debut story collection, 'The UnAmericans,' is firing on multiple cylinders.
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I don't want to write poems about the royal wedding. I would have to be moved by the event.
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Shaq is Shaq. I did an episode of The Soup with Shaq, and he shook my hand, and I felt like I was a Ken doll, like I had no hand.
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The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.
