Clare Short Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.
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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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Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge from.
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My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart just one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances.
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Elvis was a great singer. He really was.
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I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.
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Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the past, they kept fresh and intact their enthusiasm for 'the latest thing'. Fashion dominated their interest: they valued ideas not for themselves but for the prestige that they could wring from them.
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Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.
