Queen Christina Quotes
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Life is a dead-end street.
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.
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I mean my life was a combination of fascination with other people, with politics, and with policy, and the impact of government decisions on people's lives and the life of our nation and the life of the world.
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And one day our grandkids will ask us, 'What was it like to be a minority?'
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One can really love only once.
