Chris Eigeman Quotes
I never thought about movies. I never thought about Hollywood. It was just being on the stage and being in New York.
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
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We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
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I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!
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I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'
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When I got out of high school, I was working in restaurants in New York City, when I heard Bill Anderson from The Neighborhood Playhouse was doing private lessons. I started taking classes, and it was a lot of improv and Meisner and repetition.
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Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?
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More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.
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Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.
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I connect music to the emotions that come from relationships, so most of the songs that I write are inspired by those circumstances, emotions, feelings, all that kind of stuff.
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In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.
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Puerto Rican culture is very different from Mexican culture. Part of the Mexican psychology is the idea of being an immigrant or being illegal or being confused with that. That doesn't happen with Puerto Ricans, because you're a commonwealth.
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To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one’s ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.
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Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside.
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I would go to war with Dhoni by my side.
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I never thought about movies. I never thought about Hollywood. It was just being on the stage and being in New York.
