Christopher Meloni Quotes
If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.

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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
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I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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Some people think racism has dissipated or no longer exists. But it's hidden in more strategic places.
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It seemed to me that I should have a desk, even though I had no real need for a desk. I was afraid that if I had no desk in my room my life would seem too haphazard.
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We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.
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The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.
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He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.
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If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.