Christine Quinn Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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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.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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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.
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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.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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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.
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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.
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It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.
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No matter where you came from, you can be inspired.
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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.
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I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
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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.
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My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.
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I like to prepare each tour in a different way.
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Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Maybe the universe doesn’t approve of places like New York.
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In New York, I have a photo of my parents on their wedding day in 1947. They're beaming at home plate in Houston's Buffalo Stadium. I love the photo because my dad is smiling. He didn't smile much in his later years.
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I have passed, I hope, many tests over the course of the last 20-odd years in relation to the peace process and intend to continue to work forward in a very sensible and reasoned way with political colleagues in the Executive.
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All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.
