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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Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather... Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.
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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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I remember the absolute, joyous freedom I felt when I first went to college: I had no bedtime, no curfew, no rules - I loved it. I was in charge. I couldn't believe I didn't have to answer to anyone.
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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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Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.
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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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My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it's about pain, in whichever form it comes.
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Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
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Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
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Markets themselves are looking for stability, and I think we have underestimated the capacity of Europe... to actually create a more stable framework for the whole issue of debt management, bonds, and so on.
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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.
