Chris Messina Quotes
Doing something like 'Damages,' I played a character with post-traumatic stress. I was playing with sleep deprivation. I was not sleeping; I stayed up for three days at a time, drinking Red Bull. I would get shaky and tired and hyper.
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To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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For the first time, entrepreneurs can monetize their own open-source and peer-to-peer network. They can crowdfund and raise money from people across the world on the Internet in crypto-currency.
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The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.
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I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.
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Is it crazy to say that I don't often eat breakfast? But every time I go to a diner, I have to have a breakfast-type item, even if it's 11:30 at night. I love my morning eats!
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.
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The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best.
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The future is keeping you out of the present time.
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Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
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Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
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I think girls from a young age know what they want, and boys kind of have to keep up and catch up to them. Even in kindergarten, girls are pretty much the ones that like the boy first and the boys are like, 'Oh, I want to play with my trucks.' They think it's not cool. I think girls are definitely more ahead than boys.
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I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.
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The industrial peak of a people when its main concern is not yet gain, but rather to gain.
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Having challenges in your life open doors for you.
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Airline food is cooked in an oven and then kept warm. Space station food is often cooked in an oven and then thermo-stabilised, irradiated or dehydrated and then stored for a year or two before you even get to it.
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All three of the leaders looked like they were surprised to be asked about housing. And really none of them had anything interesting to say. And so this is something we need to push hard on to ensure that they understand that our housing crisis is really a major economic issue. It's not a social issue; it's an economic issue.
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And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
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Doing something like 'Damages,' I played a character with post-traumatic stress. I was playing with sleep deprivation. I was not sleeping; I stayed up for three days at a time, drinking Red Bull. I would get shaky and tired and hyper.
