Christine Quinn Quotes
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For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.
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Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.
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The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
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I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'
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The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
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Looking back, I've always enjoyed hearing about the lives of other people, their experience through their jobs, their lives, and their children. It's always been a treat to hear about others.
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A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can't, or they can destroy people's lives.
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I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from the cross. I look at myself as a man carrying a message of hope.
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Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.
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The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while 'Foster the People' plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.
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What I feel I am doing now is giving to the people exactly what they paid for but never actually heard before.
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This never happens, but I was writing with my friend Ryan Hurd and Eric Arjes, and we wrote this song called 'Last Turn Home.' The next day, my publisher emailed it to Tim McGraw's label. He listened to it, and I think within the week, he went into the studio and recorded it. And that never happens.
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My relationship with my belief has never been easy.
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Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.
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We all think people deserve second chances. None of us are perfect.
