Christie Brinkley Quotes

We need to protect our wilderness areas and national parks. Everywhere you travel, you see blight, denuded mountains, logging. If people know what's going on, they'll become activists to safeguard those places.

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• I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Like
  • Try
  • Just

• I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Breakfast
  • Short
  • Lunch

• I don't like allegories.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Like

• When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Best

• I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Work
  • Day
  • Professional

• It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Animal
  • More
  • Really

• People do not lack strength; they lack will.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Will
  • Strength

• We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Same
  • Vices
  • Ladder

• The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Power
  • Rock
  • Kid

• Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • People
  • Love
  • Character

• Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

  

  Walter Koenig
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Me

• I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Book

• I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Water
  • Cold

• The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Country
  • Universe
  • Ideas

• I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Taken
  • Never
  • Body

• Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Up
  • Different
  • Together

• A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Good
  • Cutting
  • Nothing

• I think a lot of writing, or a lot of young writers, especially, hold themselves back unnecessarily because they're so upset about the idea that they might be sentimental or so concerned about being criticized that way or even being that way that they just shy away from any strong expression or emotion.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Writing
  • Strong

• In football, you have to look out for yourself and know when that ride is over. That extra inch after you've already got the first down - what's that going to get you? Not much.

  

  Jimmy Graham
  • Football

• I've seen quite a few guys do that in his situation, focused. He wanted to stay in, in the second quarter. He asked to stay in so he could get loose, get a second wind.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Wind
  • Situation
  • Guys

• Fair votes - fundamentally - are about the rights and the interests of the people.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • People

• We need to protect our wilderness areas and national parks. Everywhere you travel, you see blight, denuded mountains, logging. If people know what's going on, they'll become activists to safeguard those places.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • People
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