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What I hope my writing reflects... is a sense of the connections between all human beings... and a different perspective on the true nature of courage. For me, those are things worth exploring and writing about.


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CHRIS KILHAM 2016 has proven to be the year where the most forward-thinking financial institutions are actually u...
CHRIS LARSEN It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And th...
CHRIS EVANS Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because eve...
CHRIS MONEYMAKER We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all ...
CHRIS STAPLETON I just kind of went into the blue-collar workforce at a really young age and discovered music, in te...
CHRIS CORNELL We had no idea what we were in for when we started Blue Sky. We just had an idea of what we wanted t...
CHRIS WEDGE My favorite way to blow off steam is to sing obnoxiously loud in the shower.
CHRIS PRATT Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers...
CHRIS CHOCOLA You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to d...
CHRIS LOWE In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it's really...
CHRIS CORNELL I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actor...
CHRIS MESSINA It depends on various things like if the promoters want to have a break so they can sell more T-shir...
CHRIS SQUIRE If you're in the WWE, it's like show business boot camp. You learn a little bit about everyt...
CHRIS JERICHO And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1...
CHRIS ANDERSON Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actu...
CHRIS MATTHEWS If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete ...
CHRIS DIAMANTOPOULOS I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.
CHRIS PINE I love Latin women, yet for some reason I always wind up with blondes.
CHRIS KIRKPATRICK I've always said there is a boulevard that exists between compromising your principles and getti...
CHRIS CHRISTIE Being voted the world's sexiest vegetarian is about as cool as it gets. It's not quite as co...
CHRIS MARTIN 'The Expats' is a thriller, but one that tends more toward general fiction than toward breat...
CHRIS PAVONE I don't think breakups are ever easy for anybody. If they are, they aren't much of a breakup...
CHRIS YOUNG Some of the greatest reality television we ever had was the moon landings. When you think about it, ...
CHRIS HADFIELD The only time it got really crazy was during 'Batman.' Anywhere I went in the world, people ...
CHRIS O'DONNELL Encouragement is like water to the soul, it makes everything grow.
CHRIS BURKMENN 'Horrible Bosses' is just blatant, outright fun. I've read some of what the critics have...
CHRIS PINE No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or &#...
CHRIS WARE Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled tot...
CHRIS MARTIN Keep your enemies in front of you
CHRIS MATTHEWS What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the sim...
CHRIS ABANI Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.
CHRIS BRADFORD There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.
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