Claire Cameron Quotes
Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.' I thought, 'What if I just stopped and listened?'
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.
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I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
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I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.
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After engaging in acts of war against another nation, there exists a degree of uncertainty in terms of the enemy's reactions. War inspires an unpredictable psychology and evokes strong emotions that defy systems analysis quantification.
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I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.
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I hadn't realized quite how intense the first few years of grad school would be. When you're being assigned 40 books a week... there's not much room for novels.
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On a perfect weekend, I'll stay in bed until I am rested, though I am not someone who sleeps late. Then I'll go for a run through the parks nearby, even if it is frosty and cold, and I love meeting friends for brunch. You know you are truly on a day off if you have time to do brunch.
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I used to go to the Church of the Harvest, right off Adams and La Brea. There was a pastor there who had the best big choir and the best band. He would start praying, and the music would start playing and just make people feel so good, you could break out of whatever you were going through. Soft music can have that effect, too.
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I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.
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Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.' I thought, 'What if I just stopped and listened?'
