Christen Press Quotes
You can be one inch from the national team and the opportunity to make so much money and a life out of it. That's why people hang on so long.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle the metaphor, the boulder fills with helium and becomes a balloon that carries you the rest of the way to the top. You just have to hold your nerve and trust to narrative.
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It's great to work with people who are jobbing actors at different stages of their career, and learning from them, and getting over being star-struck by somebody like Ian McKellen because he has such a long prestigious history in the business, but then seeing how he works on the camera; you never stop learning.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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The rut I was in with the people that I had been previously been with it took the heart right out of me.
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I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don't really care what they write about me.
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You can be one inch from the national team and the opportunity to make so much money and a life out of it. That's why people hang on so long.
