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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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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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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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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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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This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.
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I enjoyed trying everything. I'd never get a chance to try fencing or archery if it wasn't for this. It was really fun experience.
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When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.
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My route is a little bit nontraditional. A lot of the people working in Nashville, they have a model. I don't really fit into that.
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I watch television all the time, mostly PBS and old movies like 'The Quiet Man,' my favorite Wayne movie. It's marvelous. I just loved the man and still do.
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I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.
