Clara Hughes Quotes
I love working with kids and I want to just be able to do it from my heart and not as a job.
Quotes to Explore
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When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.
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If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.
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Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.
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A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
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I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.
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I like the effect drink has on me.
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I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
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I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.
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Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.
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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
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The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
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My family lived in Thousand Oaks. In 2002, when I was 17, I begged my parents to let me move out. I had money, a real job, and wanted to get my own place.
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
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In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
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I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.
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Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house, we have books, we go to plays, we talk. Our focus is art and painting and dress-up and singing. It's what we love. So I think you can see how artists in some way raise other artists.
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The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside.
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I would love to have played Gollum.
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When I don't look cool enough or when I cannot make good music anymore, I will retire.
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Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old.
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I love working with kids and I want to just be able to do it from my heart and not as a job.
