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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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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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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The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.
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Skills acquisition is really at the heart of what it means to learn.
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On 2006 Israel-Lebanese war '..the net result is you have an Israeli government in disarray and a United States administration so identified with Israeli failure right now that it hurts the United States around the world.'
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All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.
