Chris Messina Quotes
What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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Life is a dead-end street.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.
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I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
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There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.
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I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.
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They knew how intensely they had to play. They knew that there had to be a win. We just said that we're going to win this game regardless. I'm going to play the players that have to play to win the game. They buckled down and did the job they had to do.
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We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.
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Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne.
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We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.
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What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.
