Christine Pelosi Quotes
Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were running for Congress. Colleagues on the Democratic National Committee were batting around different possibilities. I said, 'We should have boot camps.'
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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I like things simple.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
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I'm mindful not to get too self-pitying or too revealing of my own pain.
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I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.
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And if he be too forward to venture upon his own strength and skill, and perplexity and trouble of a misadventure now and then, that reaches not his innocence, his health, or reputation, may not be an ill way to teach him more caution.
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I'm approaching the idea of taking on a responsibility as great as saying, "I'm good enough to be in your movie." It's a huge statement to make, and every time I do it, I think, "Is this the right choice?"
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were running for Congress. Colleagues on the Democratic National Committee were batting around different possibilities. I said, 'We should have boot camps.'
