Chris Messina Quotes
I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'
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I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
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A lot of people tend to go into the music industry and be really - what do you call it? - oblivious to everything that comes with it.
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The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.
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The Academy Awards were basically created by the industry to promote pictures. They weren't really to acknowledge the performances. Then it became sort of this a great popularity contest and now, it's an incredible show and it's seen all over the world.
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Every man is the son of his own works.
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I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.
