Top 55 Messina Quotes
#1. The hiring of Phil Messina, the production designer, was a big decision. He's so gifted, and his ideas were always so smart and rooted in American history and architecture. Nothing feels like it's not us, or couldn't be us, and I think that's very important.
Nina Jacobson
#2. Messina between the volcanoes, Etna and Stromboli, having known the death-agony's terror. I always dread coming near the awful place, yet I have found the people kind, almost feverishly so, as if they knew the awful need for kindness.
D.H. Lawrence
#3. On 'Workaholics,' I feel like I'm just hanging out with my buddies being filmed, but on 'Mindy,' I'm around professional funny people who act. Guys like Chris Messina, who are the real deal. I watch what they do and put my own spin on it.
Anders Holm
#4. Obama's side was Jim Messina, his campaign manager.
Anonymous
#5. I was born in Messina, Sicily. I stayed there until I was 18 and finished my studies.
Maria Grazia Cucinotta
#6. My children's favourite thing is to con me into buying them ice-cream if there's not too big a queue at our local gelataria, Messina.
Catherine Martin
#7. There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig, To the perfect delight of Messina.
Edward Lear
#8. It's interesting to see how acoustic guitars are emerging as a primary instrument once again ... reminds me very much of what Jim Messina and I were doing back then. You can't get too far away from an acoustic guitar
Kenny Loggins
#9. The rain probably dampened the spirits of those that decided not to come. But the people who were here didn't know it was raining because they were having so much fun.
Chris Messina
#10. Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because it doesn't come from inside.
Chris Messina
#12. We need each and every one of you to commit to vote for Barack Obama today!
Jim Messina
#13. Well, it's always strange to kiss someone with 10, 20, 40 people around.
Chris Messina
#14. At that time, I was signed to Columbia Records as an Independent Producer. I spent many weeks forming, auditioning, rehearsing and recording demos for Kenny, who was finally signed to Columbia Records.
Jim Messina
#18. Yeah, I think everybody has the crises of questioning themselves at some point or other in their lives. Is this where I should live? The job I should have? The girl I should be dating? Is this the friend I should have?
Chris Messina
#19. I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.
Chris Messina
#21. We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.
Jim Messina
#22. Of course we're still having the concert. Don't let a little rain ruin your night.
Jo Dee Messina
#23. Childhood friends are continuity, uninterrupted connections between selves, and you hold on them. You hold on them and you love them, but sometimes they're not quite comfortable.
Lynn Messina
#24. I'm from another time period. E-mailing sometimes, for me, is difficult.
Chris Messina
#25. Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.
Chris Messina
#26. Songwriting is a great release. It helps me work through things.
Jo Dee Messina
#28. When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation.
Jim Messina
#29. My experience with Buffalo Springfield was that they did not rehearse.
Jim Messina
#30. I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.
Chris Messina
#31. Thank heavens when the first single Bye Bye came off this album work started to pick up, then I'm Alright has taken us across the world. Radio has been very good, it has chosen to be kind to us.
Jo Dee Messina
#32. I would love to close my eyes and see myself with my girlfriend when we're 99 years old and I have a pipe and she's knitting a sweater, and I hope that's the way it goes. I think it's a challenge every day.
Chris Messina
#34. Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down.
Ettore Messina
#35. Dead parents are gruesome, yes, but anyone who's anyone in children's literature has either been orphaned or abandoned; well-adjusted kids from stable two-parent homes don't go on hero quests.
Lynn Messina
#36. Don't sell out who you really are to make others happy.
Jo Dee Messina
#37. What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.
Chris Messina
#38. I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actors on it.
Chris Messina
#39. I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it should be played.
Chris Messina
#40. When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.
Chris Messina
#41. I realized how quickly you could eat up a lot of time and money if you weren't prepared.
Jim Messina
#42. This election isn't about Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. It's about you. The other guys write $10 million checks and make $10,000 bets. But we've bet this campaign on you.
Jim Messina
#43. I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.
Chris Messina
#44. Nothing is as it seems; everything is as you allow it to be
Chris Messina
#45. There's been a lot of times that I thought I'd never work again; I was really bummed out.
Chris Messina
#46. It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.
Chris Messina
#47. It is a lot cheaper to spend eight hours in a rehearsal hall than in a recording studio.
Jim Messina
#48. The only thing I can count on daily is the unexpected.
Jo Dee Messina
#49. But life is not like that. You are not an airline. You can't remove a single olive from every salad served in first class and save one point two million dollars.
Lynn Messina
#50. As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.'
Chris Messina
#51. My kids remind me every day how much I don't know.
Jo Dee Messina
#52. I think as an actor, you're constantly putting yourself out there, and a lot of times failing - and failing in front of a bunch of people - and sometimes you have a good moment and something clicks.
Chris Messina
#53. Love is timeless and dependable. It's a safe place where I can breathe.
Jo Dee Messina
#54. I gave away the money advanced from my record company on my first album, I'm the type of person who likes to give. I gave to my sister. She has four little babies and bought an old house and it needed repairs.
Jo Dee Messina
#55. We're doing exactly what the Republicans don't want: getting more people involved in our democracy. Giving more Americans a voice in their future.
Jim Messina
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