Christen Press Quotes
While I don't know if I exist in the land of the elite, I'm definitely on the battlefield with restlessness.
Quotes to Explore
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I just want my films to work. The hit or flop verdict really affects me. I seriously analyse what went wrong if a film turns out to be a dud!
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.
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Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.
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I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
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In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.
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If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?
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I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.
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I was looking to explore the theme of good and evil, so what better inspiration than the comics? I'd developed a relationship with DC and Warner Bros. when I donated a sculpture of Catwoman to the 'We Can Be Heroes' campaign a few years ago. That's what started it.
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If you go away with, you know, a girlfriend, wife, whatever, you have an argument on holiday because you're not used to spending that much time with people.
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I'm like a junkie for writing.
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Marriage is a wonderful thing.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
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What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.
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I wore miniskirts in the days when no fat girls should have, and with total delight.
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They pretty much had us dead in the water.
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I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.
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I think if I could be any superhero, it'd probably be my mom... but I don't think I'd look too good in high heels, so it's not gonna happen.
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I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our 'sacred book.' What I've attempted to do is to mine that field, to mine those cultural ideas and attitudes and give them to my characters.
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While I don't know if I exist in the land of the elite, I'm definitely on the battlefield with restlessness.
