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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How things appear is only the thin, papery outer skin of the onion. Of course, when you cut open the onion, your eyes will sting and water, and then you can't see at all. You're lucky if you don't slice your finger.
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There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'
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Sprache entsteht, wie das Bewußtsein, erst aus dem Bedürfnis, der Notdurft des Verkehrs mit anderen Menschen.
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Don't think I'd really want to be a mortician. Wouldn't be getting much back.
