Claire Cook Quotes
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
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Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
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If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don’t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.
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People thought I was cocky because I didn't talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I'd say, 'I am' because it was the easier than giving some long, drawn-out answer.
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There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.
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The one that burned the hottest is the first to die.
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Great, you ruined my life and you don’t even remember it.
