Clark Gregg (Robert Clark Gregg) Quotes
When I was backstage at Comic-Con, about to go out and do the panel for Thor, and Joss Whedon ran up and introduced himself, I already almost passed out, right then. And then, he said, "I've been meaning to call you. You have a big part in The Avengers. Can we introduce you as part of the cast?" It was pretty Make-A-Wish Foundation. I was pretty sure I was dying and nobody had told me yet.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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It's actually kind of cool that women have taken to me. Because now I have a whole different demographic when it comes to the audiences. I have women who come out and support my movies, and that is a huge demographic for me, which is great because some actors don't have a female base at all.
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If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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I think that mind-sets are changing in the Middle East. Poll after poll is showing that men see the value of greater female participation and empowerment. We still have a long way to go, but Islam should not be used as a scapegoat. The obstacles that face women today are more cultural. It's not about the religion.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless.
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When I read history, I [see] what typically happens to presidents and the other party during tumultuous times and how people react when the economy is collapsing and they're losing their homes, losing their pensions - it sort of tracks, what ended up happening, because some of that is human nature.
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When I was backstage at Comic-Con, about to go out and do the panel for Thor, and Joss Whedon ran up and introduced himself, I already almost passed out, right then. And then, he said, "I've been meaning to call you. You have a big part in The Avengers. Can we introduce you as part of the cast?" It was pretty Make-A-Wish Foundation. I was pretty sure I was dying and nobody had told me yet.
