Claire Cook Quotes
Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.
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Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.
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There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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There will never be talking pictures.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.
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I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.
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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
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Politics is a good thing!
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I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.
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I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
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When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a photo in real life.
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If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.
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It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.
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I try to stay away from calling people nerds or whatever, because I've got my own fetishes and interests.
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Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.
