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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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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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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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.
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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
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I've heard that some authors do dream their books and I would love that if it happened to me, but so far it hasn't. Sometimes I'll get a good idea during the night and if I don't write it down, I won't remember it the next morning.
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If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.
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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?'
