George Clarke Quotes
I grew up in an apartment my whole life. It was just me, my mom, and my brother - she supported us. And we've always liked driving through rich neighborhoods, especially around Christmas. We would always admire the wealth. I always had this strange feeling with it.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!
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We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.
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Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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I like throwing snowballs at small children.
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O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn’t then.
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In my show I announce, ‘People say Lady Gaga is a lie, and they are right. I am a lie. And every day I kill to make it true.’
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We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my responsibility by saying the State will do all that is necessary. It is a tragedy that nowadays so many think and feel otherwise.
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Where we're coming down is we currently have $787 billion of stimulus that's been passed. We're certainly focusing on spending that money as quickly and as efficiently and as transparently as we can. We think that's absolutely the right strategy.
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Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.
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I do dead Canadians. If he's dead and he's Canadian and he's famous, I'll be playing him at some point.
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I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an adult have great memories of the jazz clubs that were all located on 52nd Street. I still catch as many jazz shows as I can when I am in New York. And when I perform, I have my jazz quartet by my side. Jazz musicians keep things spontaneous and very "live," which is the way I like to perform.
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Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that.
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Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.
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I'm just trying to soundtrack your real life. I'm just trying to give you a place to feel safe in all the parts of your experience.
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The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today.
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I grew up in an apartment my whole life. It was just me, my mom, and my brother - she supported us. And we've always liked driving through rich neighborhoods, especially around Christmas. We would always admire the wealth. I always had this strange feeling with it.
