Christine Quinn Quotes

All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.

Christine Quinn

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• When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Up
  • Country
  • American

• I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Live
  • Country
  • America

• I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Soul
  • Single
  • Heaven

• I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • God
  • Faith
  • Know

• There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Music
  • Different
  • Feel

• Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Me
  • Sometimes
  • Find

• This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Heart
  • Experience
  • Spiritual

• The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.

  

  Jack Hannah
  • Want
  • Alone
  • Best

• If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • People
  • Great
  • Pretty

• If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Smart

• I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Want
  • Matter

• Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Freedom
  • Jazz
  • Musicians

• I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Love
  • Together

• It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Government
  • Struggle
  • Nickel

• No matter where you came from, you can be inspired.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • You
  • Inspired
  • Matter

• The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Business
  • Trust
  • Baby

• I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

  

  Florence King
  • Home
  • Rather
  • My Own

• I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Music
  • Want
  • Act

• It's more fun to have a name rather than a number. I think this gives our products a personality. I get the names from literature, movies, opera, traveling, nature, poetry, sometimes even the street. I keep a small book that I write in. I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down a name for a lipstick or an eyeshadow.

  

  Francois Nars
  • Up
  • Book
  • Fun

• I have and will continue to vigorously pursue opportunities in all mediums.

  

  Jimmy Smits

• I hate performing on live television. It's so scary, because, if you screw up, you don't really get any retakes. So when I do television shows now, having been on 'Idol' really helps me mentally to just kind of take it all in. So I learned a lot from it.

  

  Phillip Phillips
  • Up
  • Live
  • Hate

• My parents know I was outgoing as a child, and whenever people came over I'd automatically do impressions of them as soon as they left; it was my mom's favorite thing.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Parents
  • Mom

• Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Death
  • Love Is
  • Follow

• All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.

  

  Christine Quinn