Christine Baranski Quotes
It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
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The month of Ramadan is the world's most widespread fast and yet its teachings are minimised, neglected and even betrayed (through literal application of rules that overlooks their ultimate objective).
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Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
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We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.
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In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.
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One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.
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I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist.
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I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
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Even if you've gone easy on the vermouth, there are still serious downsides to alcohol consumption, including but not limited to the sense that you're a good dancer.
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On Bush 'Free Trade' policies, the Republican Party has signed off on economic treason.
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'Life' in this 'society' being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of 'society' being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and eliminate the male sex.
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To this day, when men meet me, there's always that movie in the back of their mind.
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There is a special aura about artists who take their visions to the highest pinnacles of success ... I get very excited about the magnitude of the aura I see, when Alan performs. Bill Aucoin
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Network news accustoms audiences to assertion not argument. Over time, it reinforces the notion that politics is about visceral identification and apposition, not complex problems and their solutions. ... sound bites aren't very helpful. They can tell a voter what a candidate believes, but not why. And many issues are too complex to be freeze dried into a slogan and a smile. ... What's lost in a world in which everything's an ad? Perhaps the country that created the assembly line has simply found a more efficient way to do politics.
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In art school, you learn that design is much more than the look and feel of something - it's the whole experience.
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The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor.
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It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress.
