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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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't have many friends.
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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.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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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.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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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.
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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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I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.
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Wild flowers grow where they will.
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Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.
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This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.
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When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that first opening weekend audience.
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Tim Bee has demonstrated his toughness and his compassion, his ability to lead while at the same time listening to others. These are skills few people in public life have. We need Tim Bee working for us in Congress.
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I'm a pretty big Ricky Gervais fan.
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Everyone is different, and so I don't want to repeat anyone else's career. I want to do mine.
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I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.
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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.
