Claire Shipman Quotes
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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My hair is a wild, untamable beast! I like letting it grow; my bangs grow whatever way they want and I kind of follow their rule. So side bangs, poof bangs - it's kind of unpredictable.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
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I carry an umbrella when I am outdoors and always wear sunscreen, even when I am sitting in front of a computer screen! I never touch coffee or other caffeinated drinks.
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The real Malala is gone somewhere, and I can't find her.
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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The more rules you have about how people have to be, how life has to be for you to be happy, the less happy you’re going to be.
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I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves.
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I think when you see 'Ridiculous Six,' the show speaks for itself in terms of its treatment of American Indians.
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I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.
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Think less. Take action. Be authentic.
