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'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.
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A lot of people come to quote-unquote Hollywood thinking that all they just have to be different or do something outlandish or have a huge personality to become a star. But I think that if you just focus on the craft, you'll have a better chance at longevity.
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Isn’t that why all writers write? To inspire their readers?
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Remember sometimes just the rush of having a crush is a temptation, even if it is inappropriate, but beware of playing with fire, you will get burned.
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Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes.
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Don't think I'd really want to be a mortician. Wouldn't be getting much back.
