Clara Shih Quotes
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I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
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I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.
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Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
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Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
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Your intentions are your nonphysical causes that set energy into motion. They create a multitude of effects and, therefore, determine the experiences of your life. This is one of the most important things that you can know. It is also something that you can see for yourself is true.
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I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.
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At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.
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The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.
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My first job was an AFI short film, 'Chasing Daylight,' when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.
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I saw 'Tootsie' with Jessica Lange when I was eight or nine. I remember feeling something in my stomach. I didn't know what it was, but I wanted to watch that movie over and over again.
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To embody a character, you have to lose all judgment about them.
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You can't learn to take a punch. Whether you have a glass chin or you don't, the only way of finding out is having it land.
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Scotland is the only case in the world where the poor part of a territory wants to separate from the rich part. If independence came, one option is to keep the pound as its currency, so that all economic decisions will continue to be taken by the Bank of England.
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Before me, everything was black or navy blue or gray or brown or beige, things like that, for daytime. I began using shocking pink and ice blue and all kinds of bright colors. And I dyed furs.
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It's important that adults get along with each other for the child's sake, and that is our situation.
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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
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Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
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Who's more likely to succeed - someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you're an entrepreneur, you can hire as many skilled people for your business as you want.
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Trust me: Every entrepreneur has felt like an utter loser at some point.
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There is, in fact, nothing easy about being an entrepreneur.
