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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There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise.
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I am deeply grateful to the President and to my country. ... To come from Cincinnati, Ohio, for God's sake, then to go to Hollywood, and to get this kind of tribute from my country. ... I love this country so much.
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I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.
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Through Twitter, I've got a writing career and a directing career, as well as hundreds of other beneficial things that have happened to me. I love it.
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Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him....In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.
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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.
