Christina Ricci Quotes
The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types of actors and directors and different styles of acting and build a tool box.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.
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You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
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How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.
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Think about your menu, and if you're not a skilled chef - which I'm not - follow a recipe. You can't go wrong if you don't cut the fine print.
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Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.
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The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.
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The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types of actors and directors and different styles of acting and build a tool box.
