Claire Foy Quotes

I hate having to pose for photos. It's just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know what to do because you're an actor, but I haven't a clue.

Claire Foy

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• I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • True

• Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Important
  • Why
  • New

• I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Important
  • Know
  • Doing

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Writing
  • Model
  • Songs

• I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Great
  • Literature

• I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Up
  • Childhood
  • Grow

• My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • School
  • Mother
  • President

• You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Great
  • Words
  • Voice

• Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Beautiful
  • Hair
  • Brunette

• Mr. Balanchine wanted me to be myself. He didn't want me to look like anyone else. I love teaching our company dancers the Balanchine ballets. I try to give them what was passed down to me and what I learned from him. They dance it so beautifully. It also keeps me close to Mr. Balanchine. He's with me every single day.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Love
  • Single
  • Day

• I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Age
  • Media
  • Social Media

• I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Wind

• Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Wonder

• Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Team
  • Trust

• I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Himself

• My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Religion
  • Mental Illness

• I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doing drag, I realized I could do that kind of stuff, and then when I was transitioning, I kind of gave up on the whole thing because I didn't think that this time would ever come, you know?

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• That subtle knot which makes us man: So must pure lovers' souls descend T' affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.

  

  John Donne
  • Great
  • May
  • Lies

• Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • Person
  • Ability
  • Tact

• I think the experience of getting an audience a little bit tense and shocking them with a jump scare, and then moving on it can be cheap and easy. The harder thing is to get them unnerved and disturbed in a growing way. That starts off easy and increases all the way through the picture.

  

  C Robert Cargill
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • Growing

• Conceived in anger, addicted to hate, the mutant child of a twisted state.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Children
  • Reality
  • Hate

• I hate having to pose for photos. It's just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know what to do because you're an actor, but I haven't a clue.

  

  Claire Foy
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