Christie Laing Quotes
I don't know if it's a actor thing or just growing as an adult, but the best thing I've learned is that everyone wants to do a great job, and everyone wants you to do a great job, too!
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In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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I've been incredibly lucky. I've worked in two iconic shows, 'Carry On' and 'EastEnders.' If it all ended tomorrow - and it could - I'd just be terribly grateful. I've been fortunate enough to do what I love and get paid for it.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
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People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.
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La Paz, Bolivia, is the most extraordinary city.
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I didn't want to be a rock and roller. I wanted to be a Bobby Darin because he was the epitome of the performer, the sophisticated.
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If you look at the recent Nobel Prize winners, one couldn't say that the work didn't matter and the political commitment did. Who had ever heard of the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz? He is not politically involved. Octavio Paz is a great poet, also not politically involved. The Nobel Prize is for literature, for the quality of work over the years.
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I don't know if it's a actor thing or just growing as an adult, but the best thing I've learned is that everyone wants to do a great job, and everyone wants you to do a great job, too!
