Clare Short Quotes
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I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
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Many cats are the death of the mouse.
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I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.
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What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
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Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.
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Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
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O most merciful Father, put far from me all my iniquities and all my offences; so that, by Thee made whole in body and in soul, I may be accounted worthy to approach the Holy of holies.
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The thing that's worked for me is having as much of a connection to the material as possible. And sometimes the material requires a more straightforward approach, and sometimes it requires a little more silliness, you know?
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I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.
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Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.
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There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should learn to be more at peace with ourselves.
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The first day I was in a daze thinking, ‘What am I doing? What’s my role?’ and then slowly we started writing with each other, and it was great. It took me way back to my high school days when I was playing in a rock band.
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My method is vertical rather than horizontal so the scenery does not change but the texture does.
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We used to go to Studio 54 - an amazing place.
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When it's your time, it is your time.
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Have the models been successful in predicting anything? They, of course, predict substantial global warming. This is not surprising given the expressed belief of some of the model builders in the global warming Hypothesis and the many parameters in the model that need to be introduced. However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!
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If you go out to some of the big cities in California, and you look at some of the monopoly situations out there, the thing is just shocking. And the tendency, and I think it's bound to be, unless it is carefully combated by those who are managing the papers, the tendency of a monopoly situation is bound to be to damp everything down to a common level.
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Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.
