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Christopher Hitchens Quotes

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

Christopher Hitchens

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: April 13, 1949 - December 15, 2011

Topics

War Risks Conservative Status Quo

I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger.

Jeremy Clarkson

Great Water Man Me Boat Ice

The act of founding a company is its own act of narcissism: 'I alone can do this.'

Andy Dunn

Alone Company Narcissism Act Own

Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people on the edge of their seats; you have to populate that story with memorable and appealing characters; and you have to put that story and those characters in a believable world. Those three things are so vitally important.

John Lasseter

People World Story You Edge Three

Dad lived his life in a way that it was his character, not his circumstances, that dictated what his life looked like.

Steven Ford

Life Character Circumstances Way His

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

Mikhail Gorbachev

People Blame Museum British Like

Actors are actors. They're all buddies. I've done so many movies and TV that you get to be friends with everyone. And the ones you don't get to be friends with, you simply don't work together with them again.

Michael Rooker

Work Together Friends You Done Get

I definitely try to be myself and not try to imitate other performers. That's why I got my music degree. I wanted to be prepared and not be a 'product.' I want people to know that I'm not only a singer but a musician as well. I studied guitar, piano, and composition. I believe that it's just about being myself on and off stage.

Luis Fonsi

Music Myself People Believe Guitar

The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

Christopher Darden

Day Me Lawyer Legal Become Events

I have Janicza solely to thank for my growth as an actor because she saw in me something that other people just weren't seeing, and she knew that I could go beyond the normal, funny 'make-em-ups' that I was doing on an improv stage.

Brett Gelman

Funny Growth People Me Doing Seeing

I realized later how much my acting experience influenced my writing and how it helped me to write for other actors.

Winnie Holzman

Experience Me Writing Acting Write

My very first professional job was a cartoon, doing voices for the Mr. T cartoon in high school.

Phil LaMarr

Job School High School Doing High

Unfortunately, I haven't thought sufficiently about art. What I never realized - and it's really stupid - is the art world is the art world because all these thousands of famous and not-famous artists do things, over centuries. This hadn't occurred to me.

Peter Saul

Art Me Stupid World Thought Famous