Christina Hendricks Quotes
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I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
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When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
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I want to give my followers a positive message. I want to give those girls a positive message who have been forcefully married, who continue to sacrifice. I want to be an example for those people. That's my aim.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see what I ask for. I won't ask for nothing. I'll play under the same terms. So it is not Gary wants more money. Gary has money. What else do I need?
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.
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Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.
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I remember Tom Stoppard saying to me when I came out, 'I feel so sorry for you, because you'll never have children.' These days I would say, 'Well, why not, Tom?'
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I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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You have a choice: Support the woman standing next to you, or compete with her. But if you compete, you're going to be miserable.
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We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.
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After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.
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Patience is not the ability to wait but how you act while you are waiting.
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Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.
