Chris Messina Quotes

I like talking about acting. I'm comfortable talking about acting.

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• It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Great
  • Man
  • Blessings

• Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Technology

• I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Comedy
  • Always
  • Quirky

• I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Writing
  • Lucky
  • Very

• We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• I think there is a real thing going on where writers are feeling more liberated to write with a big canvas because of a demonstrable, continued appetite for long-form storytelling.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Long
  • Real
  • Think

• My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Job
  • Career
  • Myself

• They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Today
  • You
  • Teach

• I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Country
  • Vision
  • Run

• First appearance deceives many.

  

  Ovid
  • Wisdom
  • First
  • Appearance

• I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Up
  • Different
  • Real

• My parents are artists and have always instilled great pride in understanding of various backgrounds.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Great
  • Parents
  • Understanding

• Buckwheat, like Marmite and durian, is a seriously divisive foodstuff, so it needs a seriously capable defence team if it's ever going to make it on to most people's dinner tables.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Team
  • Dinner

• I don't think Hollywood will be the place that innovates great technology, but if people underestimate how they monetize content, they're sorely mistaken.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Great
  • Technology

• I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Hate
  • Gun
  • Shot

• Not many players would turn down a chance to play for Real Madrid and Barcelona, as they're right at the top the tree in terms of football.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Real
  • Football
  • Chance

• Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Truth
  • Soul

• Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Stop

• We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end; there are not pens or paper enough in all the world.

  

  George Arthur Buttrick
  • Writing
  • Journey
  • Enough

• We can make, to ourselves, very much stronger suggestions than anyone else can, whoever that person may be.

  

  Emile Coue
  • May
  • Persons
  • Stronger

• If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

  

  Michel de Montaigne
  • Press
  • Be Yourself
  • Love Someone

• When our Marines, sent to Lebanon on a multinational peacekeeping mission with the consent of the United States Congress, were murdered in their sleep, the 'blame America first crowd' didn't blame the terrorists who murdered the Marines, they blamed the United States. But then, they always blame America first. . . . The American people know better.

  

  Jeane Kirkpatrick
  • People
  • American
  • America

• I think that if something matters to you, and is important to you, then you give it the attention and energy it deserves. So, I don't look upon it as a price, but as an opportunity to influence the community in a healthy way.

  

  Nia Long
  • Important
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• I like talking about acting. I'm comfortable talking about acting.

  

  Chris Messina