Christine Ebersole Quotes
In 1998, the acting roles suddenly bottomed out. I was no longer getting scripts; even my agent stopped calling. When I finally got him on the phone to ask him what was going on, he paused, then said: 'Well, Christine, you're 45.' I got rid of him.
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People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.
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I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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I want content that is relevant to my life, that is relevant to me, that is set in the real world.
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The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.
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We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.
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My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.
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Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
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I'm not a big person, so every time they were adding these big guys to the cast, I said to my trainer, 'We're screwed, dude.' I'm only five foot five, and I'm going to look so little.
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House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment.
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Obama is the new kid with the weird name who people just sense is a little classier than his surroundings. He moved from a private school where he was class president and is now at the giant public high school with the metal detectors and the smoking lounge.
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There's so many things that I've gone through that I want to share because there's other teenagers that are going through the same things or will go through the same things.
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I had this notion that maybe I wanted to be an actor... I thought it might be a neat career. I thought if I was going to try that, I should shoot for the best, and I auditioned for Julliard.
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Open access is good, but we have to have ways and means where content that has been generated with a lot of effort and cost also gets the chance to monetise itself as is now beginning to happen in the West where some publications are really beginning to make their Internet revenue lines and subscription revenue lines quite significant.
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At first I didnt give a damn to go down in history. I wanted to win. But the more I won, the more I thought about leaving something behind. Yes, it's as important as hell to me. I want to leave something that people will remember me by. Of course, a lot of boxers want to do that. But it's not easy. Take Larry Holmes, he was the big man after Muhammad Ali, he wanted to emulate him, but for some reason the public didnt take him like they did to Ali. I think people wont fully understand what I contributed to the sport for years.
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The more the linguistic Babel corroded and disorganized parliament, the closer drew the inevitable hour of the disintegration of this Babylonian Empire, and with it the hour of freedom for my German-Austrian people.
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In 1998, the acting roles suddenly bottomed out. I was no longer getting scripts; even my agent stopped calling. When I finally got him on the phone to ask him what was going on, he paused, then said: 'Well, Christine, you're 45.' I got rid of him.
