Christine Flores (Christina Milian) Quotes
My 'Chili Palmer' was my mother. Her name is Carmen Milian, and she's my manager. Before getting into music, we actually educated ourselves, and I went to college for music as a business and learned the business side, and she read a lot of books.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet.
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There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?
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Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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Being a working mother is not easy, but I think it helps you choose what's important in your life. If I think about starting a new project - whether it be music, a movie or a fragrance - I always stop and think: Is this something I feel really passionate about? That way, if I'm not at home at least it's for something I really love, and my son can look up to that.
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Like a lot of small press founders I was looking for a way into publishing - as well as a way out of academia. Without moving to London, I couldn't see a way of working for a publishing house whose work I liked. Believe it or not, the simplest way for me to get into publishing was to start my own press.
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I had created a happy world of make-believe around me during the long years of loneliness, a world of beauty and love. It had helped me to survive, this lovely world that was to be mine when the war was over.
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A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?
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There's enough dismemberment going on in the world without writing music about it.
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My 'Chili Palmer' was my mother. Her name is Carmen Milian, and she's my manager. Before getting into music, we actually educated ourselves, and I went to college for music as a business and learned the business side, and she read a lot of books.
