Christine Lahti Quotes
I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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The thing about Drew Goddard and Mike Schur is that they are legit geniuses, and they love storytelling. They love creating worlds, love messing with the audience; they love doing things that we don't expect. To get to be a part of that is too good to be true.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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The only thing that I know how to do as an actor, as a trained actor, is you can't villainize the character you're playing. Whether it's a fictional character or a real character. Because then you operate from that sort of negative point of view, and you can't humanize him.
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Apply just the right amount of force — never too much, never too little.
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You can give your own intuitive qualities a way to surface by following your heart.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time.
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I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.
