Claire Trevor Quotes
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!
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Imagination creates some big monsters.
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I'm pagan.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.
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As a standup comedian, I've worked almost every New Year's Eve of my adult life. It's the best-paying night of the year.
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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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I want to have all of my faculties.
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I try to create characters people want to sit with, even if nothing is happening.
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Hollywood has lost an enormous amount of quality.
