Christine Quinn Quotes

When you stand up there and do a press conference, it's a very preoccupied moment. You're standing in front of cameras; people are watching you; it's not so easy to be at ease.

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• Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

  

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• Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

  

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  • Sick
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• For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.

  

  Laura Dern
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• The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

  

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• In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

  

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• I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.

  

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• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
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• I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.

  

  Gail Carriger
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• I don't have many friends.

  

  Larry David
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• I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.

  

  Patrick Ness
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• You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
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• The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

  

  Barry Diller
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• One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
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• I really want to bring ensemble playing back to the forefront - not just for me, but for everyone in jazz. When you have a group, a true co-op group, you can really heighten the possibilities of all the treasures of jazz.

  

  Aaron Diehl
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• I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

  

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• The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

  

  Ida B. Wells
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• I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.

  

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• When all else fails, I am comforted by the fact that when I am ill or old, I will never be on my own. After all, you'd have to be a pretty terrible father if not one of your seven daughters was willing to take care of you at the end.

  

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• When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

  

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• In Mumbai, I found, people practiced a showy, demonstrative kind of love, one unafraid of affection or emotion.

  

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• After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera.

  

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• I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.

  

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• When you stand up there and do a press conference, it's a very preoccupied moment. You're standing in front of cameras; people are watching you; it's not so easy to be at ease.

  

  Christine Quinn
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