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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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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A surprising number of teens I meet in rougher schools around the country find refuge in novels and creative writing. It's not always the usual suspects either, the high achievers.
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I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now.
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Love is the kind of thing that's already happening by the time you notice it, that's how it works, and no matter how old you get, that doesn't change. Except that you can break it up into two entirely distinct types -- love where there's an end in sight and love where there isn't.
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The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.
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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.
