Clara Hughes Quotes
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'
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It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
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I grew up in New York.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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If you don't have a healthy relationship with yourself, how can you with anyone else? Even if it's not healthy, I imagine it's a lot of fun. And healthy or not, I still think there can be a lot of love.
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My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
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I'm really interested in passivity as a type of action - sort of allowing the situation to change you, choosing to give in being an act of agency rather than an act of submission.
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Do you want an interesting job? Yes. Do you want a balanced life? Yes. And to make a contribution as well? Of course.
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I'm not trying to emulate William Faulkner. I never said I was.
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There is a misconception that I've experienced in my life about people that live in the South. I got sent away to school in Connecticut in the late Eighties, and kids were honestly asking me, 'Do people there wear shoes?'
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My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.
