Claire Coffee Quotes
I actually went to study journalism at Northwestern, thinking that would be my Plan B for a career. But then I realized, if I'm going to struggle and make no money, I might as well do what I really want to do.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world.
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I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of every human being, but not in a God who sits on high looking down on us and taking care of us and whom we bother with things trivial and weighty so that he will be good to us and arrange things for us here.
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I'd say that directing is in my heart. And that's where my focus is, like a laser beam. That's what I've been studying for a long time, and I think that everything that I've done before has contributed to the development of my craft as a director.
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I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but beneath that, we form cultures and traditions that are beautiful.
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The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system.
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I can't remember if it was in the third grade in school, I was being told that two amoeba happened to hit in a muddy puddle of water two billion years ago, and I was an accident. I was the result. I wasn't real smart, but I said, 'I don't like the sound of that.'
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I actually went to study journalism at Northwestern, thinking that would be my Plan B for a career. But then I realized, if I'm going to struggle and make no money, I might as well do what I really want to do.
