Claudia Black Quotes
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates. I had the opportunity to go up in one of the planes, but I was scared of flying.
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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I am most attached to my mother, who always travels with me when I am on an outdoor location or abroad. She is my friend, who I share everything with.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.
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The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
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If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.
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I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.
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If you use up your strength to excess in karate training, this will cause you to lose the energy in your lower abdomen and will be harmful to your body. Your face and eyes will turn red. Be careful to control your training.
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And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.
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If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.
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Don't think I'd really want to be a mortician. Wouldn't be getting much back.
