Claire Bloom Quotes
I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
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I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.
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You are only as good as the people you dress.
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Make-up is an extension of your clothes.
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My wife comes most of the times I teach and stands on the front row to help me. She's been wonderfully supportive.
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I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.
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Social Security, for example - I'm 43. I've paid into the system. You know what? That money has been stolen from me. I know that my parents who are on Social Security - they've got to continue to receive it. They're dependent on it. It is their primary source of income.
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
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In a family of faith, you don't believe in divorce; you believe you can make it.
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I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.
