Christen Press Quotes
I've always preferred a 4-3-3. It's a more fluid and dynamic system, and I think it plays to my strengths better.
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In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
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The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.
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I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.
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You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
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It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago. With spirituality comes morals, a better way of thinking.
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Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
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I love to play music.
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For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.
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When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way of doing a job - on instinct based on all the research we did going in. you want to trust yourself and your director and your acting partners in the circumstances you're shooting. I don't like to have any kind of overview.
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I'm doing it by enjoying what I do in the gym, really enjoying my foods.
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Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail.
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Word of mouth and the Internet are the only press we have left.
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I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten.
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I'd like to do a reality show with four white people...who are dropped off in a really bad black neighborhood. And the show would be called...Cracker Hunt.
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We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.
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The dreams you choose to believe in come to be. When you feel in your innermost being that you will achieve what you set out to do, you open the way for miracles. Choose to believe something good can happen. Expecting it to happen energizes your goal and actually gives it momentum. What you expect to happen, happens. If you expect to succeed, you'll succeed.
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But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.
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I've always preferred a 4-3-3. It's a more fluid and dynamic system, and I think it plays to my strengths better.
