Christine Gregoire Quotes
It is time for us to turn a corner and come together, put our differences behind us and focus on the future.
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
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Do your job; be the best at whatever your job description is.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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Sometimes I write less than I'd like but do research. Other times, editor's notes or a copy-edited manuscript or page proofs for a forthcoming novel mean that I need to put my attentions elsewhere for a day or two, but I always come back to writing.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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For a long time, companies ignored the fact that 80 percent of sporting goods are sold to the casual consumer.
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I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.
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To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.
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It is time for us to turn a corner and come together, put our differences behind us and focus on the future.
