Adelaide Clemens Quotes
Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.
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Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
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I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.
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I'm not at all a hero. I'm a wussy.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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My siblings were pretty far apart in age, so I sort of grew up as an only child.
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I don't argue with people... if they say I'm not funny, they're right, for them.
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It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.
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It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.
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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.
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The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.
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I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.
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I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.
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Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
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You need to know what is worth letting go. And this generally comes with time and patience.
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I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.
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Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.
