Chris Messina Quotes
The main thing about doing a comedy is that you spend most of your days really happy and laughing.
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Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.
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One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.
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The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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What matters most is the win.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
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I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn't think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and was generally quite a spod.
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...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.
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First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.
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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity - these three - and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised? Men say that God punishes for complaining. No, but men are angry with misery. They are irritated with women for not being happy. They take it as a personal offence. To God alone may women complain without insulting Him!
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The main thing about doing a comedy is that you spend most of your days really happy and laughing.
