Claud Cockburn Quotes
Since becoming a journalist I had often heard the advice to 'believe nothing until it has been officially denied'.
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I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
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New York City has an integration problem.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
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I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.
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If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, 'What Teachers Make,' is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up on my soap box and say, 'Let me tell you what really makes me angry.'
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Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.
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If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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If you change your attitude you will change how you see the world and discover the potential it has simply through opening up your eyes to differently.
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I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
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More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't.
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Since becoming a journalist I had often heard the advice to 'believe nothing until it has been officially denied'.
