Christina Ricci Quotes
For years, I hated myself. I covered the mirrors in my house. I literally couldn't have a mirror in my room.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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If I don't have room for an item, I put it in warehouses.
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We don't quite have the same comic book culture as America, but I would watch Spider-Man cartoons and X-Men cartoons and watch Bond as much as anyone on the planet.
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.
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The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated and gambled upon for centuries.
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I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; they're not working hard to change things. When you're a slacker with a pessimistic view of the future, you're likely to meet those expectations.
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A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.
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Once you encourage the thought of compassion in your mind, once it becomes active, then your attitude towards others changes automatically.
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For years, I hated myself. I covered the mirrors in my house. I literally couldn't have a mirror in my room.
