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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You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.
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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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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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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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I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered.
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The United States survives so long as at least one of its major parties is politically and intellectually healthy. I don't think the Republican Party, or I should say the Republican Party as the vehicle for modern American conservative ideas, survives with Donald Trump.
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It's always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for.
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Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's no point in living at all.
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I did not let people tell me what to do, and I never wanted to be a groupie.
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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.
