Christine Lahti Quotes
It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.
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I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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Of course I get hurt.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
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My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system; strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density; core strength exercise for a stable mid-section; and stretching to maintain mobility.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.
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Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
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It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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To operate with the aspiration of color-blindness in a country whose central operating mechanism for centuries has been race belies the logic of race-neutral public policy. Public policy must account for the historic and intentional pillaging of resources experienced by black Americans.
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Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.
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It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.
