Christine Baranski Quotes
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.
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Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.
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You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture. I can think of a lot of comedy screenplays; Woody Allen has had numerous nominations for his screenplays. But most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
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In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
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Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
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Wild flowers grow where they will.
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I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.
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Nutrition has always played a huge role in my life. I became a vegetarian when I was 13 and then got my entire family to become vegetarians. And I have always been active my whole life. I genuinely enjoy sports and I spend time on my total gym.
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There had come to him one of those moments of quiet despair that lie in wait for even the happiest. Stealthy-footed they leap upon us, as we walk along the street, as we sit at evening with fruit and wine upon the table and laughter on our lips, as we wake suddenly from sleep in the hour before dawn; neither at our work nor our play nor our prayers are we safe, those moments can leap at any time out of the blackness around human life and suddenly the colors that we have nailed to our mast are there no longer and all that we have grasped is dust.
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I know beating a woman isn't like winning seven gold medals. But how many old guys are there in the world? You think they can relate to Mark Spitz? They relate to me, Bobby Riggs.
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I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.
