Tessanne Chin (Tessanne Amanda Chin) Quotes
Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.
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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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I love shopping, but I can't go out. I love going to restaurants and eating out with friends.
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I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
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As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.
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I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to 'ER' were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.
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If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.
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For a while, I thought that I was only going to be cast in Second World War films.
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I've kept my phone on silent for a year and a half. For me, it's too much noise. It's not my jam. I like to keep things a lot more easygoing. The world's not going to stop if you don't pick up your phone.
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Every time you choose a perfume, you are voting. And, of course, I hope you vote for me. Not only for my ego, but for my pocketbook. The more you buy, the more money I make.
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I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.
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I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net. And I always answer it, if it's legible.
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Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.
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You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation.
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
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Because I am a chef, I have to try new things all the time, so it's been really good to have my family to be able to be there and test everything out.
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One hates a person for the same reason one loves him
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Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.
