Christine Lahti Quotes
I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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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.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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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.
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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.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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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.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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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.
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Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
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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.
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I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.
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Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.
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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.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
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There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter and being an anthropologist are the two other things I can imagine doing.
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If only life were that simple; if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.
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The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.
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I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.
