Christine Quinn Quotes
I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
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It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
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I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
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We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
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For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business.
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My parents separated it, and that let me know that TV life wasn't my normal life; that was my job and my hobby.
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I actually lost both my legs. I can walk because I got really good health care.
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Common man, no matter how hard life is to him, at least has the fortune of not thinking it.
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It's not easy to talk about transcendence, just as it's not easy to play or listen to a late Beethoven quartet … You have to practice quite hard, like you do with any art form. Religion is hard work.
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To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.
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God had answered her prayer, not with the thing she asked for, but rather the thing she wanted most in her heart.
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We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.
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There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
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Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction has perhaps been more about the differences between the unconstrained world of the imagination and the realities you run into, day-to-day, when you're riding your donkey.
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I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!
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From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
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I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.
