Chris Messina Quotes

If you're playing your character and you're running into all these people who know who you are and treat you in a way that doesn't pertain at all to the character, it takes you out of it more, so when you're alone in a city where people don't know you, you can kind of pretend even more and get into the head space of where you need to be.

Chris Messina

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• Running
• City
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• There will be many types of assets codified into the blockchain, and they are all not just going to be on the bitcoin blockchain - it's going to be a number of different assets here. And the best way to invest in that is a diversified portfolio.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Different
  • Way
  • Best

• My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Breakfast
  • Fish
  • Lunch

• To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Real
  • True
  • Me

• My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Space
  • Basketball
  • Create

• My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Generation
  • Tough
  • Last

• While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Up
  • Person
  • Too Much

• You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Done
  • Wonder
  • Company

• I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Think
  • Teach

• In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Picture
  • Company
  • Wait

• You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • You
  • Attitude

• In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Love
  • Way
  • Myself

• The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Today
  • Best
  • inspirational

• First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Morning
  • Sometimes
  • Down

• If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Women
  • Change
  • Rules

• The main cause of Europe's deep fall - the losses of inclusion, job satisfaction and wage growth - is the devastating slowdown of productivity that began in the late 1990s and struck large swaths of the continent. It holds down the growth of wages rates, and it depresses employment.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Job
  • Fall
  • Deep

• I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Song
  • Fire
  • Red

• I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Future
  • See
  • Games

• Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

  

  Philo
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want.

  

  Jeremy Jackson
  • People
  • Trying

• Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.

  

  Don Rickles
  • People
  • Legend

• I hate America. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me. You come to room 1013 over at the hospital, I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean. I live in America, that’s hard enough, I don’t have to love it. You do that. Everybody’s got to love something.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • People
  • Live
  • Country

• The main thing during a crisis is discipline, to begin investing in time again after the crisis subsides.

  

  Suleyman Kerimov
  • Discipline
  • Crisis
  • Subsides

• If you're playing your character and you're running into all these people who know who you are and treat you in a way that doesn't pertain at all to the character, it takes you out of it more, so when you're alone in a city where people don't know you, you can kind of pretend even more and get into the head space of where you need to be.

  

  Chris Messina
  • People
  • Character
  • Running