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Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.
Christopher Bollen
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Christopher Bollen
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: November 26
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Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control.
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The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.
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I like change. I've never really had much consistency in my life, you know, from everyday work to my living situation to whether or not I'm going to be in L.A. The one constant thing in my life is my friends and family, which is all I need
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My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma. That's where I trace the familial line of murder mystery obsession.
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I had been going out to Orient for several years.
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My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.
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There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.
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