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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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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I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.
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As under cover of departing Day Slunk hunger-stricken Ramazan away, Once more within the Potter's house alone I stood, surrounded by the Shapes of Clay.
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The argument is that there may be a cluster of genes that influences both outgoingness and musicality. If this were true, we would expect to find that deviations in one ability co-occur with deviations in the other, as we do in WS and ASD.
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I teach a Bible study for homeless guys in downtown Atlanta every week. Been doing it for years. That's the guys I'd rather go talk to. I'd rather take my act outside the church.
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I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.
