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 just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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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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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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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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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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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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Here is my best advice on the matter of deductibles: just count off on your fingers all the items that you suspect might be deductible - and then forget them, because they aren't.
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I think I’d felt that as long as I avoided looking for the tickets, they would be there; it was only if I searched the archive that they’d disappear, as if the past were up until that point indeterminate, that I might outrun it. Do you know what I mean? We had to pay a lot of money to get the tickets for the next day; luckily they still had seats, although I suppose there are usually seats to and from Kansas City. It was kind of like that, recovering the memory of what my father had done. The knowledge was always there, I carried it in my body, but I didn’t know what I knew, although I knew I knew something and that I dreaded knowing it fully, dreaded it as if only coming into the knowledge, into the memory, would make the event that I was repressing real.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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I did very well when I was younger, and I am fine.
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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.
