Christine Lavin Quotes
Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling.
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.
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Every once in a while, I would say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,' and I would go back to third grade, and after six months, I'd say, 'OK, I'm bored. Let's go make a movie.'
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I don't do fight camps anymore because I live in camp.
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You can't make movies without known names, and unknowns can't become known, because they can't get work.
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Your mother calls and says she hasn't seen you for a long time. The first year: You invite her for a week. You give her your room, and you both sleep on the lumpy studio couch. The fifth year: Your mother sleeps on the lumpy studio couch. The tenth year: You send the children to mother.
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Even when I was in Dubai, I used to host small birthday parties, events, and lots more to make money of my own to fulfil my wish to become an actor. I didn't take any money from my parents to fulfil my dream.
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There's something fabulously decadent about staying in a hotel across the street from where you live.
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Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling.
