Claire Bloom Quotes

My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.

Claire Bloom

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• For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Tax
  • Benefit

• Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Finish

• I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Job
  • Nature
  • Man

• Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Soul
  • Said
  • Everything

• Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Nice
  • Should
  • Along

• I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • World
  • Women
  • Want

• From Texas to New Hampshire and everywhere in between, we know that support for policies such as expanded background checks continue to be popular in both parties.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Know
  • Support
  • Popular

• The E.U. can deliver on its citizens' needs and make its partnerships work only if we all act together - E.U. institutions and national governments, at all levels, united.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Work
  • Together
  • Partnerships

• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Language
  • Same
  • Task

• For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Money
  • Doing
  • Performance

• The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

  

  Victor Cousin
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Way

• A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• When I first came into the league, I followed my parents for everything. Now, I'm really doing stuff on my own.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Parents
  • Doing
  • Now

• I hope we can get to a point where women players are being paid properly all around the world so the only thing they have to worry about is playing football and playing football alone.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Women
  • Hope

• I'm gluten intolerant, so that automatically cuts carbs from my diet.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Diet
  • Automatically
  • Carbs

• A relative of poison ivy and poison sumac, the cashew contains the same rash-inducing chemicals, known as urushiols, as its kin.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Same
  • Poison
  • Relative

• The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Ideas
  • Add
  • Then

• My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Design

• My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.

  

  David Beckham
  • Parents

• Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Violence
  • Life is
  • Generations

• As an industry, the film industry is better than most. It's not perfect - I wish every company would carbon-offset their productions - but it's better than one would expect.

  

  Jeffrey Skoll
  • Perfect
  • Wish

• I think, as most of us do, I put such high expectations on myself that this spills over onto other people. And not everyone is wired this way. Some people can shrug expectations off their shoulders like a cardigan, remaining cool and breezy. Others wear them like a parka with a stuck zipper, hot and stifling.

  

  Kristin Armstrong
  • People
  • High
  • Cool

• My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.

  

  Claire Bloom