Claire Foy Quotes
I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
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I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center of the coverage.
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The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.
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I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.
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Providing great schooling is the single most important thing we can do to help any child from a disadvantaged background succeed. It's also the single most important thing we can do to boost the long-term productivity of our economy.
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For my part, if I'm working while flying, I'm often a bit relieved to be forced to shut down the computer on final descent. But I guess I'm a slacker.
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I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.
