Chris Wooding Quotes
There was a big horror boom in the '80s, and I liked its originality and what you could get away with.
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.
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Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
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If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.'
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It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.
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I love to hang out with my friends and go to the movies. My mom and I are involved in the Mother/Daughter Organization - national charity work. Whenever I get free time, we volunteer. It's an organization so mothers and daughters can spend time together while volunteering.
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We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bilateral relations, on a basis of the strictest mutual respect for the sovereign rights of each country. We will never try to ask the government of the United States to change its economic and political system.
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I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.
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Art lies because it's social.
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We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States.
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after the release of Black:
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The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.
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Now, these men weren’t idiots. They were geniuses who paid a high price for their genius because the rest of their thinking was other-world. A genius is someone who travels to truth by an unexpected path. Unfortunately, unexpected paths lead to disaster in everyday life.
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The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation.
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I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.
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But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.
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I laughed derisively. "For goodness' sake, don't start gargling now. This is serious." "I was laughing." "Oh, were you? Well, I'm glad to see you taking it in this merry spirit." "Derisively," I explained.
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There was a big horror boom in the '80s, and I liked its originality and what you could get away with.
