Claudia Christian Quotes
Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
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I've always respected and appreciated Punk, but we never really hung out. We came from the same route, but we didn't necessarily hang out in the same circles. I've always had a great appreciation and respect for his hard work.
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
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Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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Russia's assertiveness in global affairs is something I look upon with great concern, which we need to address with eyes wide open and a healthy degree of skepticism.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.
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I am not here to beat anyone. I am here to make a name for myself, and I am glad to work with great directors. I don't believe in the term 'next superstar.'
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Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.
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My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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I have been in love, and it was a great feeling. It's when you are attracted to and feel affection for someone. You want to do things for that person. But only love isn't enough in a relationship - understanding and communication are very important aspects.
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Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.
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Most women are not as young as they are painted.
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I'm actually in love with all of Scandinavia.
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Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
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Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!
