Christine Quinn Quotes
At the end of the day, somebody someday is going to say something about you. At least you can look back and say you lived the way you wanted to.
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When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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I will go to my grave being known as Marge Gunderson. It'll be on my gravestone if I have one. I don't mind that, because it was a great character.
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I don't believe that competitions are important.
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It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.
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Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.
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I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.
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I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.
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My name is Frances Louise McDormand, formerly known as Cynthia Ann Smith. I was born in Gibson City, Ill., in 1957. I identify as gender-normative, heterosexual, and white-trash American. My parents were not white trash. My birth mother was white trash.
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I express Catalonia's wish of being in the E.U. We'll see what happens.
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Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
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When I was a kid it was big news when someone flew around the world in a little aeroplane, but nobody cared when I did it. Then, to rub salt into my wounds, the customs people ripped my aeroplane to pieces, looking for stuff.
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Men who fight wars in Winter don’t live till Spring.
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Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.
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You cannot, for instance, sustainably protect the environment if the majority of the people are still in primitive agriculture leading to the encroachment of forest reserves.
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If man were not free, then he could not conceive of causality at all, and could not form any concept of it. Insight into lawfulness is already freedom from it.
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I don't know anything about being a royal child. But I have played Shakespearian kings.
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We worked under a lot of pressure... three days to do an episode, sometimes two in a week, 39 episodes a year.
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This is why we have racism, really: because people are confronting the unknown, and they don't like that.
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I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.
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Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.
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But boy, right away it is fun to play around with the Paintbox program.
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At midlife, I think a woman has more in common with her teenage children than anybody else. We all are kind of uncertain. We realize for the first time in either our lives or decades that we're in charge now.
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At the end of the day, somebody someday is going to say something about you. At least you can look back and say you lived the way you wanted to.
