Claire Foy Quotes
Being really likeable all the time is just not real life, so it's your duty to make a well-rounded character.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
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I love cooking, but I love the business, too. It's important because a lot of chefs forget the business side and have to shut down after six months.
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With 'Human Giant,' we tested almost everything live and made tweaks based on what worked and what didn't.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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I love to turn an idea that is in my head into reality.
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Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.
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Being really likeable all the time is just not real life, so it's your duty to make a well-rounded character.
