Merry Clayton Quotes
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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
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With competition everyone has to try harder.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I play sad bastard music. For the money.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
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Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.
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What women care about are jobs, the economy, the unemployment rate.
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You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
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As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away, and I took to studying a lot. A few years later, a relative of mine who really wanted me to try my hand at acting sent my photographs to a few production houses, and like they say, the rest is history.
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I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.
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When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.
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Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
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After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.
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Carole King is one of my dearest friends. Were like family.
