Christine Lavin Quotes

Well the way I ended up with my own record is that I did this concert at Wesleyan University. It was just one night and we had no thought of making a record.

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• Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Why
  • Sometimes
  • Dance

• Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Together
  • Me
  • Play

• I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Actor
  • Writer
  • Pretend

• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Years
  • Go
  • University

• Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • People
  • Good
  • Wanted

• When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Feeling
  • Kind

• I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Dark
  • Find
  • Green

• Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • People
  • Life
  • Today

• I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Way
  • Study
  • Everything

• The GOP is broken. They need a Bill Clinton moment with someone to figure things out. Let me just say - and I don't agree with his policies, so let me put a warning label on the side of the packet here - If George W. Bush had never gotten in the disastrous Iraq war, he was trying to modernize the party on a series of fronts.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Trying
  • War
  • Party

• Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.

  

  Om Puri
  • Never
  • Place
  • Fat

• And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Different
  • Changes
  • Looking

• A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • People
  • Know
  • First

• With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Running
  • Internet
  • Become

• People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • God
  • Sometimes
  • Thank God

• He rose to his feet and padded down the last few steps silently, came up behind Kim, and leaned over her to say, “I vant to drink your blood” in a heavy, fake Dracula accent. She shrieked, flailed, and a zombie ate her brains on-screen."!

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • She
  • Silence

• Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Science
  • Language
  • Feel

• Aircraft are always going to be something that terrorists are interested in because you bring down an airliner, you have drawn the world's attention.

  

  Jack Keane
  • World
  • Attention
  • Always

• Niggas with knowledge are more dangerous than niggas with guns. They make the guns easy to get and try to keep niggas dumb

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Knowledge
  • Dumb

• Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character.

  

  Jane Badler
  • People
  • Up
  • Character

• Well the way I ended up with my own record is that I did this concert at Wesleyan University. It was just one night and we had no thought of making a record.

  

  Christine Lavin
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