Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Quotes
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony.
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I don't think of people as black or white. It's a question of are they photogenic or not? I don't think anyone says, 'Let's book her. She's black.' I think they say, 'Let's book her. She's good.' We've come that far.
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The idea so possessed my mind, that a thrill of fear ran through me, and I wished to exchange the ghastly image of my fancy for the realities around. I see them still; the very room, the dark parquet, the closed shutters, with the moonlight struggling through, and the sense I had that the glassy lake and white high Alps were beyond.
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There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.
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I live my life in a very peculiar way where nothing gets my goat as such. I don't look at things in a manner where they offend me. I look at things in a manner where they amuse me.
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Even when you disagree with her, she electrifies your mind.
