Christine Quinn Quotes
I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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When I'm at home, I just run all the time, you know; I get up, and I go pretty much four days a week outdoors. I go in the canyons around L.A., Malibu - just around L.A. there's a lot of different spots.
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It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.
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Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
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To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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Most of my work is based in Hyderabad, so it makes sense that I own a house here. Another reason I want a home here is because I want to have my own kitchen so that I can cook, since I hate food from hotels.
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If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.
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It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
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When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.
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The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
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So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.
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I'm just not gonna let up until I know I've done absolutely everything I can for New Yorkers.
