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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I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.
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Sure, Kill Bill's a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.
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It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.
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Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people felt like rock music was theirs, from Elvis to the Beatles to the Ramones to Nirvana. This was theirs; it wasn't their parents'. I think hip-hop became the musical style that embraces that mentality.
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I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.
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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.
