Paul Claudel Quotes
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I don't want to be a bust.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
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If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to be. There's been a lot of hardship along the way. But that's what life is. And it's how you deal with those things, and how you let them shape you that makes you a better person and defines what sort of person you're going to be.
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I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
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Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.
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If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.
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My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].
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I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now... its AFI-liner
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My name is not Susan, so watch what you say. If you still need her, then be on your way.
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I turned around and she kind of had some tears in her eyes.
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Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.
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The FDA has formed a rapid response team.
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When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there’s a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off.
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The days of my youth I remember as nearly always in need of explanation, and not as much fun as advertised in the promotions for board games and breakfast cereal.
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My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!
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It can be difficult to be an introvert in church, especially if you happen to be the pastor. Liking to be alone can be interpreted as a judgment on other people's company. Liking to be quiet can be construed as aloofness. There is so much emphasis on community in most congregations that anyone who does not participate risks being labeled a loner.
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Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.
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It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.
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Every birth is a getting to know.
