Chris Wood Quotes
Hopefully, everyone has the same feeling I do when they perform. I get such a thrill from getting to play make believe. My favorite place to be is trying to be somebody else.
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I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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I don't want to have to think about what is right; I want to live right. And what that means to me is going to be different to some of my fans, some of their parents, and some other role models.
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I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'
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Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people.
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What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.
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I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
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Hopefully, everyone has the same feeling I do when they perform. I get such a thrill from getting to play make believe. My favorite place to be is trying to be somebody else.
