Claire Cook Quotes
I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
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I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
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'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don't need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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One man's transparency is another's humiliation.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.
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God’s love for the biggest sinner is greater than the love of the holiest man for God.
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I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.
