Christine Vachon Quotes

Theatrically seeing a movie with a group of people and having a collective experience has an authenticity that you can't get with your big screen television.

Christine Vachon

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• The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
  • Work
  • Music

• Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Power
  • Plants
  • Be Prepared

• Broadway is really my life.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Broadway

• In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Society
  • Born

• Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Simple
  • Human
  • Difficult

• There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Friend

• My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.

  

  Finn Jones
  • She
  • Dad
  • Child

• I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Know

• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • More
  • Fortune
  • Pity

• Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Want

• When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Me

• With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Sensitive

• I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • God
  • Money
  • Song

• I am not a party person.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Party
  • Person

• People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Money
  • Bad

• Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Marriage
  • Talent
  • Genius

• This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Great
  • Long
  • Depression

• If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Great
  • Important
  • New York

• As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

  

  Albrecht Durer
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Simplicity

• You can't always worry about offending people.

  

  Mary Beard
  • People
  • Worry

• Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Imagination
  • Irish
  • Creepy

• Theatrically seeing a movie with a group of people and having a collective experience has an authenticity that you can't get with your big screen television.

  

  Christine Vachon
  • People
  • Experience
  • Movie