Donna Lynne Champlin Quotes
About six months after I moved to New York City, I was literally down to my last twenty dollars when a friend of mine from college got me a job at an Upper East side gym. I ran the cafe, and I was the janitor. It was an unfortunate combination of duties, to say the least.
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
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There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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I loved the writing process. I loved it.
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Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does.
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I try to be of the world, rather than just observing it.
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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.
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Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.
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About six months after I moved to New York City, I was literally down to my last twenty dollars when a friend of mine from college got me a job at an Upper East side gym. I ran the cafe, and I was the janitor. It was an unfortunate combination of duties, to say the least.
