Caitriona Balfe Quotes
I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.

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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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Life is like an analogy.
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It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.
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I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.
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American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
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I used to be the hippest of them all. I used to know everything about everything. I used to read about everything that was going on, and I knew everybody's name and anybody in pop culture. Anything that was written about me, I would read.
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Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.
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I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.
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I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.
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I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.