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 think I've slayed my long jump demons.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.
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I feel like any single woman of color who's been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from 'For Colored Girls.' It's just part of what you should have, as a woman of color.
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I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.
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I was working, like, 14-hour days on 'Fargo,' and now if I schedule more than two things in a day, I'm like, 'Whoa, you guys. That's two train rides, and I have to plan for an hour-and-a-half lunch with my cat.'
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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.
