Claudia Brant (Claudia Alejandra Menkarski) Quotes
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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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If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.
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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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Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts are broken by the world. They gyre and fall; they see through everything, and are blind.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.
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Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the Jews.
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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.
