Christen Press Quotes
The speed of life that top American athletes have is boom-boom-boom, and I'm a lot slower. I look before I cross, you know?
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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I was given the opportunity to write the kind of book that I wanted to write, rather than one that catalogues where I sang and what I sang and what I wore. I wanted to write a book about an American family, the family that has produced me. The longer I live, the more I realise the incredible support and love we were given as children.
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As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.
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The speed of life that top American athletes have is boom-boom-boom, and I'm a lot slower. I look before I cross, you know?
