Susanna Clarke (Susanna Mary Clarke) Quotes
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.
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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world.
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There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it.
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In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.
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We British say "to put the world to rights." I've discovered that that's not the way Americans say it and people scratch their heads and say, "Funny... what does he mean by that?" It means to fix the thing, to make it all better again.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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When you coach Russ Smith, you have a nervous breakdown on every possession. He's not from a different country. He's from a different planet.
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Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.
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We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.
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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.
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The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.
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That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
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When you're using a long brush, you have your arm at full length. Basically, it exaggerates the movement of your body. But I always start far away and end up really close.
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Women are underserved and underestimated as consumers.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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Why would some all powerful being create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner contrary to their creation?
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Lovers are rarely the most rational beings in creation.
