Claudia Brant (Claudia Alejandra Menkarski) Quotes
It is my honor to be a part of this publishing powerhouse where songwriters are not only heard and understood but respected and taken care of.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her.
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As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.
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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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Death ends a life, not a relationship.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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I wanted to reveal how genetic code is translated into protein. I knew a great application could be for antibiotics, since half of the useful ones target the ribosomes, but I didn't believe I could contribute to it. It was like the next Mount Everest to conquer. It was my dream to contribute something to humanity.
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In 'Manithan' I did not again play a bubbly thing, but my character was calm and composed.
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Vanity is as old as the mammoth.
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I try to eat healthy for the most part. When I cut weight, I cut pretty much everything out. I don't have protein when I cut weight other than what I might get from something like chicken breast. So I don't eat any extra protein, just because I'm trying to get the weight off. That's the only real diet I have.
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I go to bed when the kids go to bed because I get up when they get up at 5.
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Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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There is no empirical evidence to suggest that ageing in humans has been modified by any means, nor is there evidence that it is even possible to measure biological age. And nothing has been demonstrated to be true when it comes to anti-ageing medicines.
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[I have] my own view about [Bob] Dylan's Nobel prize. Which is, I'm firmly in the Nay camp. I do think the award is a category error, but that's not why. Not in itself. What bothers me is the perceived status of the categories. If pop lyricists were routinely considered for the prize as are authors and poets, I'd still think it mistaken, but I wouldn't much care. But I am quite certain that Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen, for example, both at the very least Dylan's equals as writers, have never been in the running and never will be.
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It is my honor to be a part of this publishing powerhouse where songwriters are not only heard and understood but respected and taken care of.
