Chris Pronger Quotes
The most I ever played was 42 minutes in a three-period game. But I didn't get across the red line too much in that one.
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I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.
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A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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I think of 'Mommy' as very simplistic or not simplistic, but I wish for the style to actually work with what you see onscreen and what you feel in that very moment. I hope we did not disrespect the characters by being too flamboyant when it's not necessary.
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
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I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
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I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.
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Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
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I don't feel famous.
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I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
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I got to train with some of the best and have critics like Oscar de la Renta and Calvin Klein. As a student under Calvin Klein, my project was to make a coat, and then years later, I was hired at Calvin, by Calvin, to design coats for him. It came full circle!
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So the real drama for me is balancing live performances and writing, and one of the ways I balance it is I write in hotel rooms. That's not exactly balancing. Actually, writing in hotel rooms means that I'm refusing to deal with the problem.
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It's nice to create something you believe in. It's even nicer to dance to your own tunes sometimes.
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The most I ever played was 42 minutes in a three-period game. But I didn't get across the red line too much in that one.
