Christina Hendricks Quotes
It's a tough business. To my parents or to their friends, I was not a success, but to me I was a huge success. I was having a blast. I was working on shows I loved, I was working with actors I loved, and I was making a living as an actor. And I loved every second of it.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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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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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.
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I have no mouth, and I must scream.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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I'm a good person. I don't wish hateful things on people. I don't hate anybody. I know that I treat people right.
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To have hundreds of people from every political and demographic group you can imagine coming out day after day to take part in the national health care debate is fantastic.
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I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.
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Agents run a business, and their business is their talent; some are more general and broad and can rep a little bit of everything; some are more niche. You have to be specific with who you approach and how.
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It's a tough business. To my parents or to their friends, I was not a success, but to me I was a huge success. I was having a blast. I was working on shows I loved, I was working with actors I loved, and I was making a living as an actor. And I loved every second of it.
