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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I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen, like, a sunset.
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'Is it different, then, for men and for women?''What isn’t, dearie?'
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In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are - about luck and identity and how the idea struck them.
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I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children.
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I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.
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I want barriers to be broken down for women.
