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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Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.
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Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.
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We don't claim that there is plenty of money. Greek people are not asking for money. They are asking for work and the ability to make a living.
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If you don't think every day is a great day try going without one.
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The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense activity of his work or in the restful equipoise of his forces, is powerful, involuntarily and composedly powerful, but he is not avid for power. What he is avid for is the realization of what he has in mind, the incarnation of the spirit.
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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.
