Christen Press Quotes
I didn't have any natural instincts toward heading. It cost me lots of opportunities to score.
Quotes to Explore
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.
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When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.
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There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.
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I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
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You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.
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Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative.
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Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.
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My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.
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It's true that Tottenham tempted me because it was a young team which was third in the league.
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I think I wrote 'The Trysting Place' in about three weeks. But it was inexperience that made me have to do that. I didn't feel good about the book all the time I was writing it. It felt a bit like wading through molasses.
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I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.
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I didn't have any natural instincts toward heading. It cost me lots of opportunities to score.
