Christen Press Quotes
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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I think mobile homes are a blight on the planet. Attractive, affordable housing is possible, and I'm out to prove it.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.
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I've always been into dressing nicely. My dad's really into fashion, also. We'll always go out and buy stuff. He has his own style and I have my own style, but it's a shared thing. Same thing with my grandfather; he was really into his style, so it's just sort of been passed down, I think.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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I'm going to stand up for what I need to do, not what everybody else wants me to do.
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I find small talk exhausting, and I don't like myself when I'm around people.
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Losing hurts me. I was determined to be the best.
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Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don’t understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs…) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail than women who fail.
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I want barriers to be broken down for women.
