Claire Foy Quotes
The monarchy is thousands of years old and has experienced many things like 'The Crown' in the past. They're always changing and evolving; that's the thing. They have to.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of activism, oftentimes it makes a difference if something is women-focused. It's likely to get the attention of women much more easily.
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
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I'm an outsider.
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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
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Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop, and it's freed me to pursue ideas and techniques I wouldn't have otherwise attempted. Since I get to take an assignment from concept to final execution, I have more freedom in my idea-making processes.
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I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'
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The motto of feminists: 'There is never an excuse for hitting a woman.' Shouldn’t it be, 'There is never an excuse for hitting.'?
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I considered myself one of the boys. My brothers didn't spoil me at all, not at all. I was very tomboyish. It wasn't as if I was like a princess or anything like that.
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There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by.
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As it is in the body, so it is in the mind; practice makes it what it is, and most even of those excellencies, what are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch, only by repeated actions.
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The monarchy is thousands of years old and has experienced many things like 'The Crown' in the past. They're always changing and evolving; that's the thing. They have to.
