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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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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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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People have lost their faith that if they work hard, if they try to get ahead, if they play by the rules, then that will ultimately result in positive outcomes.
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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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From 'The Sandman' and 'Black Orchid' to 'Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?,' Neil Gaiman has provided some of the most memorable stories of the comic book industry.
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When I first started performing, the only community that truly got what I was trying to do was the LGBTQ community.
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I don't feel I could've played major league baseball.
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In place of the bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, shall we have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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If I could do one thing over I'd have been nicer to my parents.
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I started doing community theatre as a way to make friends, and that was when I caught the acting bug.
