Christine Lahti Quotes

I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed.

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• I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

  

  Salma Hayek
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  • Music
  • Love

• Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.

  

  Maluma
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Dixie Chicks surprised me with a beautiful three-part harmony version of 'I'll Take Care of You.' And Don Henley's performance of 'The Heart of the Matter' still just slays me every time I hear it.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Beautiful

• I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.

  

  Rachel Ward
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  • Age
  • Acting

• Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

  

  Abagail Johnson
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  • World
  • Trying

• I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• I learned that I truly am a fighter and that I cannot give up.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Give
  • Fighter

• I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

  

  Harry Caray
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  • Myself
  • Air

• Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Hope
  • Cure
  • Cheap

• Anormal day looks like, you know, shower, put on the same jeans, the same tattered Gucci loafers I got at the thrift store, white socks, and my t-shirt and my very beat-up Helmut Lang blazer. I'm in the exact same outfit every day.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
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  • Day
  • Same

• I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

  

  H. G. Wells
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  • Today
  • Motivational

• I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
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• My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
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• Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.

  

  Magnus Scheving
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  • Children
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• The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as we make it, so it seems to be entirely free. It seems to be completely up for grabs. But of course it's not.

  

  Samantha Harvey
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  • Free
  • Past

• The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Power
  • Small

• When I did 'Grease,' I took good care of myself. I treated it like a job. I approached it very professionally because I wanted to make a good reputation and hopefully continue on in the Broadway community and continue to do shows.

  

  Laura Osnes
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  • Job
  • Community

• As I get older, I just need to continue to make sure I'm staying in peak shape and taking care of my body the best I can.

  

  Ben Zobrist

• If you stop and think about who was in the 'Lassie' movies, it's difficult to think who was in them, apart from Elizabeth Taylor. You remember the dog, not the people! So if you're going to be in a movie, and it's called 'Gremlins', it's going to be about Gremlins, and what people are going to remember are the Gremlins.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Remember
  • Movie

• Playing in arenas, that's very non-personal with the crowd.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco

• I'm sure that I'll never have another success like Harry Potter for the rest of my life, no matter how many books I write, and no matter whether they're good or bad.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• I like a woman that's capable and at the same time feminine. I admire tomboy qualities but with a feminine touch.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Time

• I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed.

  

  Christine Lahti
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