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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Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.
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During my childhood, I felt older than my years because I felt responsible for my brothers and sisters.
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Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.
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Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.
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I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
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The main thing about doing a comedy is that you spend most of your days really happy and laughing.
