Christen Press Quotes
Winning and losing isn't what's important. The attempt at success and getting to your best self is what matters.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.
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I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
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I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.
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I graduated from West Point in 1974. It was an all-male institution. I went back to teach at West Point in 1984 and found the place far better than it was when I had been a cadet... I attributed a good amount of that to the fact that we opened up the academy to women.
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Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
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While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time.
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Winning and losing isn't what's important. The attempt at success and getting to your best self is what matters.
