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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If we had to pose for every single person at the Eat & Greets, we wouldn't get to speak to anyone that's there, and we definitely wouldn't get to serve them food.
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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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I get psyched about coming onto a Broadway stage every night. it's very exciting. You develop a kind of gratefulness for it when you spend months trying to get a job.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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Everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, it be-at, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown and like in ancient civilizations the slave boatmen rowing galleys to a beat and servants spinning pottery to a beat...
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I always urge women to aim for the highest job they can get because you get more money and you get more support and you get more control, and those are the three things that actually make life easier.
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I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without.
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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.
