Christine Baranski Quotes
Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me.

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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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No one needs anything; they have to want it.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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Countries only have certain opportunities in history, and if you do not take advantage of them, those opportunities don't ever come back to you again.
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I really wanted Rachel [from the Girl on The Train] to be purely fixated on fantasy and on her ex-husband.I didn't want her to be embarking on romance, touching people; I wanted her purely in the realm of fantasy and frustration and dreaming and sadness.
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I want to really study and learn about fashion, and kind of discipline for a few years, really start to study, and then probably start my photography career. I feel like that'd be really good for me - to disappear for a few years.
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I think safely experiencing fear by watching a horror movie makes real life a little less frightening.
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One cannot fail to observe a crushing irony: the gospel of relativistic tolerance is perhaps the most “evangelistic” movement in Western culture at the moment, demanding assent and brooking no rivals.
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Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me.