Clark Gregg (Robert Clark Gregg) Quotes
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Racism is a physical experience.
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A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.
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The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.
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I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.
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When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
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I'm obsessed with fuzz pedals.
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The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.
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You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.
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My work ethic is from sports.
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To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.
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II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.
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There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.
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In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
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When you're in the day-to-day grind, it just seems like it's another step along the way. But I find joy in the actual process, the journey, the work. It's not the end. It's not the end event.
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Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.
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Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.
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(About Cesare Borgia) What cruelties were not the result of his? Who could count all his crimes? Such was the man that Machiavel prefers to all the great geniuses of his time, and to the heroes of antiquity, and of which he finds the life and action make a good example for those that fortune favors.
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You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there's only so deep you can dig in that week.
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I want to do stories that inspire people.
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War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.
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When I was a kid, I used to stay up after 'Saturday Night Live' to watch the horror shows.
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I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.
