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So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.


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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 There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Fr...
CHRIS CRUTCHER ...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better b...
CHRIS CRUTCHER 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.
CHRIS HEIMERDINGER In order to know your enemy, you must become your enemy.
CHRIS BRADFORD You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black gu...
CHRIS ROCK You can tempt me, desert me, or cause me great pain; you can create a dark world that my cause me to...
CHRIS STEWART I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers...
CHRIS CLEAVE Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no l...
CHRIS BRADFORD seven times down eight times up like the Daruma doll
CHRIS BRADFORD The impossible becomes possible if only your mind believes it.
CHRIS BRADFORD You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that y...
CHRIS ROCK Next Big Thing -- you hear all that crap. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't psyched.
CHRIS O'DONNELL Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going...
CHRIS BOWKETT If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is im...
CHRIS EVERT Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.
CHRIS EVERT Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and ...
CHRIS PATTEN Jesus says, I love you just the way you are. And I love you too much to let you stay the way you are...
CHRIS LYONS In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
CHRIS PATTEN