Claire Coffee Quotes
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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I'm one of those actresses that really enjoys staying home with my children. To be told you've got to get to work, it is just unbelievable what it does to you.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.
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I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.
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In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.
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It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree.
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I believe the classified section of a newspaper - especially the 'Business Opportunities' column - can tell you more about your city 'business-wise' than any other publication.
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There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal.
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The hardest thing as somebody who does both is - and I'm very serious as an actor, and I consider myself very serious as a musician, engineer, music artist - is learning that it's OK to be versatile.
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Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.
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The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.
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As that the walls worn thin, permit the mindTo look out thorough, and his frailty find. 1
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You break it, you own it.
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'Is that as bad as it sounds?' Floyd asked.'No,' Auger said. 'It’s worse. A lot worse.'
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When I create a sports costume, I remember that it must not look - how do you say? - 'bedraggled.'
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And she could never give me an answer. And I realized that, you know, I had a problem on my hands.
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Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.
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How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success.
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If you finish like a photograph, on the other hand, the picture has as much personality as a photograph.
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O the idea was childish, but divinely beautiful.
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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I hated being scared when I was little. Aliens really scared me.
