Christine Quinn Quotes

You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.

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• My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Career

• I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Misunderstood
  • Pattern

• I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Real
  • Want
  • Celebrity

• Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Should
  • Something
  • Talk

• I'm here today because I hated everything else.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Today
  • Everything
  • Here

• During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Family
  • Political
  • Me

• I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Work
  • Money
  • Looking

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Live
  • High

• Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Music
  • Like
  • Choice

• We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • People
  • Power
  • Faith

• Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Want
  • Feel
  • Run

• I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Strong
  • Myself
  • Green

• I will know him by his eyes.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Know
  • Eyes
  • Will

• You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Live
  • Today
  • Feelings

• There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • True
  • Idea
  • Achieve

• I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Time
  • Children
  • Support

• There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• I don't believe the half I hear, Nor the quarter of what I see! But I have one faith, sublime and true, That nothing can shake or slay; Each spring I firmly believe anew All the seed catalogues say!

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Believe
  • Spring
  • Sublime

• It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Past
  • Me
  • Joy

• I think you can move to everything, but with some music, you just want to sit still. That's me, anyway.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Music

• I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Book

• I don't need the water to be inspired. My stories inspire me, not the location of where I'm parked. And good thing, since I've had to finish books in airports, in the RV we used to have, the lake house, while on vacation, at home, in the kitchen when my office PC was on the fritz.

  

  Lori Foster
  • Good
  • Home
  • House

• You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.

  

  Christine Quinn
  • Life