Christina Ricci Quotes
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I believe in eating what I like and sweating it out in the gym.
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
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People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.
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Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.
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Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why I write for the younger set. My reply: 'I can't think of anyone I'd rather write for.'
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In my opinion, whenever you get two guys who want to fight each and two guys who want to be in a good fight, you let them fight.
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I think that nationality has no relation to that which gives rise to manga. Even among the Japanese, manga creators are making their creations everyday reflecting their own individuality, with none being the same. What is important isn't the differences between the creators but their love for manga.
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I have a thousands wants; it's hard to really hone in on just a few.
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Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
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In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and with two little daughters, I led a life which would have been recognizable to any woman who had led it and to many others who had not.
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Just say no to drugs!
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How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified.
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Jews can build in New York, Moscow and Paris, but in our own land, we can't build? That's nuts.
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
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I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.
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I expect to win. I've never been content with anything I've ever done.
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I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.
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I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.
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Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
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I am the most competitive person you will ever meet.
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Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.
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For my family and Howard's partner, who is like family, for 10 years we were in a state of shock. It takes time to appreciate fully what was going on then. That's connected because post-9/11 New York is so completely different from the way it was and the counterculture movement going on before then was so remarkable; I think people are appreciating it a lot more now.
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I once ate McDonald's three times in one day.
