Christina Hendricks Quotes
I started doing community theatre as a way to make friends, and that was when I caught the acting bug.
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.
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I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
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I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
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A girl's best friend is her pride.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It's this light fabric that just moves with me.
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I have a hyper personality.
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I love an iPad game of Scrabble.
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Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.
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About once a year, I do these long-distance relays with some friends of mine, and it takes about 27 or 28 hours to complete it.
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I'm not afraid of dying I'm afraid of not trying
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I kind of live in the moment.
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The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born.
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I started doing community theatre as a way to make friends, and that was when I caught the acting bug.
