Christine Lahti Quotes
I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.Christine Lahti
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
Manuel Puig -
I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
Jack Horner -
Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
Sammi Hanratty -
Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
Barry Eichengreen -
That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
Wanda Sykes -
I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
Garth Brooks
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
Iain Sinclair -
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
Quentin Crisp -
I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
Oliver Stone -
Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
Ban Ki-moon -
Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
Caio Fonseca -
From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
Paracelsus
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
Zendaya -
No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
Jack L. Chalker -
I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.
Fisher Stevens -
I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.
Patrick Stewart -
An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition of 'dilemma' is 49.9% in favor and 50.1% against. If the gap is greater, there is no dilemma, because the answer is clear.
Yair Lapid -
Roger Ballen is pretty much a member of Die Antwoord, it would be safe to say.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.
Dani Shapiro -
We need open, competitive, market economies... but at the same time with effective regulation and supervision.
Jose Manuel Barroso -
It seems like it has kind of taken off where people are saying 'oh it's a female character' and it just kind of grew. But my intent in saying that was humour. You know, you have to show Link when you create a trailer for a Zelda announcement.
Eiji Aonuma -
And to his eyeThere was but one beloved face on earth, And that was shining on him.
Lord Byron -
I think, as human beings, we all have a fundamental mode, a basic way of relating to the rest of reality, and for me, it's always instinctively been about sound making and trying to extract information, grammar, meaning from sound making. That's been my way of navigating reality that's very personal; a painter might say they make marks or look.
Max Richter -
I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.
Christine Lahti