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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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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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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I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.
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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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In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
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Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.
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I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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The main thing about doing a comedy is that you spend most of your days really happy and laughing.
