Christina Ricci Quotes
I'm so glad I'm not 20 years old anymore. I was in a hurricane. I'm a lot calmer now. I don't cause destruction for myself and others everywhere I go.
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It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
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I'm the youngest of five girls, and I don't know about you, but it's really hard to be heard when you have five women. I've always been this loud and over the top as a person because I just want to be heard.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
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The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.
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In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.
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I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.
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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
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I'd been on 'Buffy' - that is an amazing community, the Joss Whedon fans.
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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
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Every good painter paints what he is.
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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
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You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.
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When I was a teenager, I worked in New Orleans for a chef named Paul Prudhomme. That was a very important time in my life as a chef. I developed my palate and learned a lot. And here I am now. I specialize in modern Mexican and contemporary Latin cuisines.
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There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that.
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Behind every man's external life, which he leads in company, there is another which he leads alone, and which he carries with him apart. We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us.
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It's really no different for me 'cause I work for BET so it's like the writers are always on strike.
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Well, I could have been a famous singerIf I had someone else's voiceBut failure's always sounded betterLet's fuck it up, boys, make some noise!
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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All world conflicts will be resolved if people listen to my advice.
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I think because of the eccentricity of my work and how I dress, people expect me to be bouncing off the walls. But that's just not how I am.
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All the best art and music feels like some type of truth - even if it's really simple - that you just can't deny. A listener can feel that.
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I'm so glad I'm not 20 years old anymore. I was in a hurricane. I'm a lot calmer now. I don't cause destruction for myself and others everywhere I go.
