Christine Lahti Quotes
I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see romantic snapshots of what seems like a great lifestyle, and it is, but it's also grueling.
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My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It's just there. I can blend it into Ira's character. I can use Ira's emotions as an outlet.
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My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.
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We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend what they love. To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.
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Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear
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I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'
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When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon's, they were trying to get us to change it from the first-person story into a how-to book, and they were offering us some decent money. My agent told me; 'you should really consider this'.
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Love is a hero’s journey, and the hero’s journey is a noble but difficult path.
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I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.
