Christine Lahti Quotes
After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.
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Everything's so accelerated now.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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Characters that are not the norm or a bit out of the ordinary are always a challenge as an actress. You learn more by using different tools for those type of characters. They are always much more fun to play and much more interesting. They take you places that you wouldn't necessarily go in your everyday life.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.
