Claire Holt Quotes
I would love to continue to challenge myself by trying different things. Action, Drama, Comedy... I would be grateful to do any and all of it if someone is kind enough to hire me! I have such a wonderful time on The Originals though, because I get to play Rebekah in so many different periods. I'm a little spoiled.
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The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.
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I'm very happy in my 18th century worker's cottage in Kent and playing my music for the dog-walkers paused outside.
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That's the great thing about being a director. You have your list of things you have to worry about and things you don't have to worry about. If you can hire someone or cast someone who equates to not having to worry about, it's great!
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One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.
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I would love to continue to challenge myself by trying different things. Action, Drama, Comedy... I would be grateful to do any and all of it if someone is kind enough to hire me! I have such a wonderful time on The Originals though, because I get to play Rebekah in so many different periods. I'm a little spoiled.
